Meet Bobby Soames and Damon Branch

Hey guys! So we're continuing our count down toward the official launch of the Mayonnaise Murders Trilogy, which again will be on Friday, July 21, from 7-9 p.m. at our favorite bookstore, Book Suey, in Hamtramck at 10345 Joseph Campau. Today I want to introduce you to Bobby Soames and Damon Branch, two other fully human characters in this crazy story. Both Soames and Branch are police detectives - and best friends - who work for the Denver Police Department, and they eventually wind up working with Vid and Vee to try and solve the Mayo Madd crisis that, on Earth, actually has its roots in Colorado before spreading nationwide. Also, Soames has history with a character you'll meet later named Rodeo, the primary MayoMadd drug dealer on Earth who is based in Denver. He put away Rodeo's father, Big Rodeo, a major drug dealer who passed the business onto his son.

To learn more you gotta read the book! But I'll give you a taste...

From what Detective Bobby Soames (“Soamy” to his friends on the squad) knew about Rodeo, he wasn't likely to be carrying out any major business today that could possibly draw the wrong sort of attention.

Rodeo hadn't gotten to where he was at the top of the Slime of the Earth food chain by being stupid; he'd been in the game practically since he took his first steps and his father, "Big Rodeo", started showing little junior the ropes.

Soamy had taken a strong interest in the Rodeo family business ever since Junior took over operations from Pops nearly a decade ago. Primarily because it was Soamy who had put Big Rodeo away for life.

For him, to lock down the son would be a sort of closure to what for him had been an obsession to the point where it sometimes got raised eyebrows at work and caused the occasional friction at home - and not the good sexual kind.

But the tension at home rarely lasted too long because Soamy's wife of 15 years knew what she was getting into when she'd married a cop, and when that cop's father was murdered by Big Rodeo (never proven) two years later she knew it was something that would haunt their entire family for the rest of their lives.