August Gamble

He was well known to the Chester detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as well as to many residents. Tom anderchuk was this town's bad kid, drop out, drug taker and then drug dealer. No sympathy lost her over his death.
Corporal Roger Sheppard wondered then why this particular murder upset him so? As a Christian, he was always the cool one, the non-emotional policeman.
Was it the August heat? No, it was more than that. This whole drug problem was right in his own backyard. Now a young dealer had been killed and everything was clean. Whatever evidence Roger did have didn't add up, especially after learning that Tom had become a believer shortly before his death.
Then there was Madeline, Tom's girlfriend. Roger couldn't get her eyes out of his mind … haunted, scared, and empty. If Madeline did know anything, she wasn't talking. Or was afraid to.