Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?

In New London, CT, Connor Raposo, a recent transplant to the small town, is picking up a pair of shoes from the cobbler when he hears a crash. Out in the street, a dump truck has backed over a rider on a Harley Davidson, and the scene is gruesome. Eccentric characters are brought together by this accident, including Sal Nicoletti, a mysterious man with Elvis hair whom Connor meets at the scene; Manny Streeter and Benny Vikström, local detectives who decide it was no accident but who would solve the crime faster if they weren't trying to drive each other crazy; Didi, Eartha, and Vaughan, Connor's associates in a money-making scheme raising funds for beagles addicted to cigarettes; and the not-dead-yet gambler Fat Bob, so-called for his love of the Harley model known as the Fat Bob. What begins as disparate threads ends up as a tangled web of double-crossing and deception, catching the hapless Connor in the middle.