Missing Persons (Buddy Steel Series #1)

SALES HANDLE

Buddy Steel is a smart, aggressive, ironic, spare, and cynical officer who’s been content working homicide at the LAPD until his father falls ill, and he takes over his post in Freedom, a town two hours north of Los Angeles. Loyalty between fathers and sons plays out in an investigation that blooms from a missing person case to a complex web of twisted families.

KEY SELLING POINTS

• Crime fiction
• New York Times best selling author of three Jesse Stone novels for the estate of Robert B. Parker
• Family drama
• Police procedural mystery

AUDIENCE

• Fans of crime fiction
• Fans of police procedurals
• Fans of Raymond Chandler
• Fans of Robert B. Parker, Sue Grafton, and Michael Connelly