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Synopsis
MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times best selling author, Michael Brandman.
Steel...smart, aggressive, ironic, spare and cynical...has been content working homicide at the LAPD until his father, the legendary Sheriff Burton Steel, falls ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. Sheriff Steel is headquartered in Freedom, a privileged coastal community located a hundred miles north of Los Angeles. His health failing, he asks his son Buddy to come home to cover his back and to groom him to be his successor.
Buddy reluctantly agrees. He returns to Freedom despite having outgrown its small town limits, wary of his father's authoritarianism.
No sooner does he hit town than Buddy learns the wife of the high-flying star of a Freedom based world-renowned television ministry has gone missing. A visit to the woman's home leads to a hostile confrontation with her husband's family and Buddy's realization that something greater than simply a missing person is at stake.
Allegiance between father and son provides the backdrop for Buddy's complex investigation of twisted families, avaricious con artists, violent gangs, drugs, corruption, and murder. And added to the mix is an enigmatic femme fatale who succeeds in upending Buddy's tenets regarding contemporary relationships.
MISSING PERSONS is its own book, yet crime fiction fans will find it a joy to trace its literary lineage from Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker through to Sue Grafton and Michael Connelly.
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About the Author
Michael Brandman is an acclaimed motion picture and television producer, screenwriter. His novels, Killing the Blues, Fool Me Twice, and Damned If You Do, based on characters created by the late Robert B. Parker, are all New York Times bestsellers. He and Tom Selleck continue to write and produce the highly successful series of Jesse Stone movies for CBS and Hallmark.
Review
"...readers will relish this straight-ahead cop procedural, complete with an assassination attempt and a biker gang's money-laundering scheme..." (Don Crinklaw Booklist)
"Fans of Parker's work will appreciate Buddy, another irreverent, complex lawman." (Library Journal)
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- PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1464208050
- ISBN 13 9781464208058
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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