Title: Missing persons
Description: Introducing Buddy Steel, LAPD homicide detective whose father, Burton Steel, sheriff in the town of Freedom, a nearby privileged community falls ill with Lou Gehrig's disease.  Returning home, Buddy learns that a world-renowed broadcast minister's wife has gone missing.  Following leads, Buddy finds a link to complex web of twisted families, con artists, corrupt public officials, violent enforcers, and a femme fatale.
Subjects: Sheriffs, Murder, Investigation, Fiction, American literature, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fathers and sons, fiction
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)