Missing Persons
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"A terrific read. Buddy Steel is my kind of Sheriff."—Tom Selleck
MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times bestselling author, Michael Brandman. Even in a town called Freedom, justice has its price...
LAPD homicide detective Buddy Steel finds himself detoured from his own life when his ailing father, Sheriff Burton Steel, calls him home to Freedom to take over as deputy. Though relations between father and son have always been strained, and Buddy reluctantly agrees to the arrangement.
When he begins investigating the possible disappearance of a famous local televangelist's wife, he is met with outright antagonism. While the highly-secured husband insists that his wife is simply visiting a relative, the housekeeper who reported her missing fears she may have been murdered. And no one, from family members to ministry security and staff to the prosecutor's office seems inclined to help Buddy in his investigation. In fact, many go out of their way to stop him.
But the more he pokes and prods, the more he realizes that the Bible-thumping family and their television empire may be an elaborate cover for a less-than-holy enterprise. This is far more than a typical missing person case. But how far up does the corruption reach—and will Buddy pay the ultimate price for refusing to look the other way?
MISSING PERSONS is an emotionally propulsive thriller perfect for fans of Robert B. Parker, Sue Grafton, and Michael Connelly. Because there are dark secrets buried in this small town, and a missing person threatens to unearth them all—with deadly consequences.
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Michael Brandman. (2018). Missing Persons. Sourcebooks.
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Michael Brandman is the author of three Jesse Stone novels, each based on characters created by Robert B. Parker, all on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
With his longtime partner, Tom Selleck, he produced and co-wrote nine Jesse Stone movies and three Westerns.
His and Emanuel Azenberg's production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for Best Picture.
He has produced more than forty motion pictures including films written by Arthur Miller, Stephen Sondheim, Neil Simon, David Mamet, Horton Foote, Wendy Wasserstein; David Hare, and Athol Fugard.
He is the father of two sons and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Joanna Miles.
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"A terrific read. Buddy Steel is my kind of Sheriff."—Tom Selleck
MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times bestselling author, Michael Brandman. Even in a town called Freedom, justice has its price...
LAPD homicide detective Buddy Steel finds himself detoured from his own life when his ailing father, Sheriff Burton Steel, calls him home to Freedom to take over as deputy. Though relations between father and son have always been strained, and Buddy reluctantly agrees to the arrangement.
When he begins investigating the possible disappearance of a famous local televangelist's wife, he is met with outright antagonism. While the highly-secured husband insists that his wife is simply visiting a relative, the housekeeper who reported her missing fears she may have been murdered. And no one, from family members to ministry security and staff to the prosecutor's office seems inclined to help Buddy in his investigation. In fact, many go out of their way to stop him.
But the more he pokes and prods, the more he realizes that the Bible-thumping family and their television empire may be an elaborate cover for a less-than-holy enterprise. This is far more than a typical missing person case. But how far up does the corruption reach—and will Buddy pay the ultimate price for refusing to look the other way?
MISSING PERSONS is an emotionally propulsive thriller perfect for fans of Robert B. Parker, Sue Grafton, and Michael Connelly. Because there are dark secrets buried in this small town, and a missing person threatens to unearth them all—with deadly consequences.
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- source: Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of What You Break
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- content: "Fans of Parker's work will appreciate Buddy, another irreverent, complex lawman."
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- source: Robert Knott, New York Times bestselling author of the Hitch and Cole Series
- content: "Michael Brandman's follow-up to the three Jesse Stone novels he adeptly penned for the late Robert B. Parker gives us the cool and iconic Buddy Steel. A former point guard turned cop, Steel damn sure owns the ground he walks on. All capable 6'3" and one-hundred-seventy pounds of him, Buddy's that guy that you want to ride with when s..t hits the fan. With plenty of thrilling moments and turns you don't see coming, what a great ride Brandman takes us on in Missing Persons. Trust me, you won't be disappointed. Buckle up."
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Buddy Steel reluctantly returns to Freedom, CA, when his father, Burton Steel Sr., is diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. Buddy had built a satisfying life for himself as an LAPD homicide detective. Now Burton, the county sheriff, wants him home, so he can teach him the ropes. But Buddy's first case involving the missing wife of a charismatic preacher is trouble. A run-in with Rev. Barry Long Jr.'s staff and brother reveals that this is more than a missing-persons case. Buddy's investigation stirs up political tension, but he's determined to clean up the town. VERDICT Brandman, the author of three "Jesse Stone" mysteries based on a Robert B. Parker series sleuth and a coproducer with Tom Selleck of nine Jesse Stone TV movies, takes a cinematic approach in this laconic debut. Fans of Parker's work will appreciate Buddy, another irreverent, complex lawman.--LH
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Movie producer/Robert B. Parker ghostwriter Brandman, lately spotted mostly in Paradise, Massachusetts, moves his base of operations to Freedom, California, in this series kickoff.Some people might think Rosalita Gonzalez has a sweet gig as the nanny to Barry Long III, the 5-year-old son of the Rev. Barry Long Jr., The People's Pastor. But Ms. Gonzalez makes it clear to Burton Steele Jr., Chief Deputy Sheriff of San Remo County, that she's not going back to the Long compound. Mary Catharine Morecombe Long, the pastor's wife, has been missing for a week, and the nanny is sure something very fishy is going on. When Buddy, who got his nickname to distinguish him from Burton Steele Sr., the sheriff who recruited his son from the LAPD when the old man was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, rides out to the Long place, the chilly, unresponsive reception he gets does nothing to allay his suspicions. Soon enough he's shopping among local judges for a search warrant he executes while Long and his brother, Hickham, are out. Although the main evidence he finds--three neatly maintained basement cells--isn't enough to keep DA Michael Lytell or Murray Kornbluth, the Long family's hydra-headed lawyer, off his back as he pursues the case, Buddy has a priceless advantage over his adversaries: an imperturbable megadose of attitude he clearly picked up from Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone (Robert B. Parker's Damned If You Do, 2013, etc.). Buddy's laconic self-confidence powers him past a triple homicide that's treated so casually two of the victims don't even have names and into bed with runaway Long sister Maggie de Winter, whose warning that she's no good barely registers. As they're hauled off to jail, the screamingly obvious villains are still asking how likely it is that they really would have acted as they're charged with doing, and you have to admit that they have a point.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Hollywood writer-producer Brandman is one of the writers anointed by the estate of Robert B. Parker to continue the legendary author's Jesse Stone novels. After three of them, he's turning now to his own stand-alone, a cop novel featuring LAPD homicide detective Buddy Steel. For good or ill, the book is haunted by the ghost of the late master. There's Parker's sense that criminal behavior is often a product of family pathology. Here it's a televangelist group, pompadored con men operating in Buddy's old hometown, a gilded community north of Los Angeles. When things go wrong, they turn on each other, then wreak vengeance on another con man, who fleeced them. That's where Buddy comes in, and as he banters with everybody, echoes of the Hawk-Spenser exchanges fly about. Sometimes they're funny; sometimes one wonders how to take lines like, to further fuel his perfidy. Ironic? Trying too hard? Most readers will relish this straight-ahead cop procedural, complete with an assassination attempt and a biker gang's money-laundering scheme, and will either enjoy or ignore the self-conscious pseudo-Parkerisms.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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LAPD homicide detective Burton “Buddy” Steel, the narrator of this highly readable if shallow series launch from Brandman (Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues and two other Jesse Stone novels), moves back to the small town of Freedom, Calif., to work as a deputy sheriff after his sheriff father is diagnosed with ALS. Buddy’s first case involves the town’s celebrity, TV preacher Barry Long Jr., whose wife seems to be missing and whose money has also apparently vanished. Barry’s sister, Maggie, who’s “statuesque and leggy, narrow and lithe with proper curves in all the right places,” plays the femme fatale role. Buddy faces the occasional bit of danger (he essentially shrugs off a shoulder shot from a hollow point fired from a .357 magnum), but a distinct lack of betrayals or even significant plot twists, and no examination of Buddy’s strained relationship with his father, make this book too straightforward an exercise in contemporary noir.
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MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times bestselling author, Michael Brandman. Even in a town called Freedom, justice has its price...
LAPD homicide detective Buddy Steel finds himself detoured from his own life when his ailing father, Sheriff Burton Steel, calls him home to Freedom to take over as deputy. Though relations between father and son have always been strained, and Buddy reluctantly agrees to the arrangement.
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