Another great read. Buddy Steel is my kind of Sheriff. --Tom Selleck
When legendary Sheriff Burton Steel summoned his son Buddy home from
LAPD Homicide, a reluctant Buddy agreed. Burton is debilitated by ALS,
Lou Gehrig's Disease. While Buddy is to cover his back, not an
assignment he wants, the clincher is it's his last chance to connect
with his proud, overbearing parent.
What Buddy didn't expect was to encounter crime in Freedom, a privileged
coastal community a hundred miles north of Los Angeles, as vicious and
challenging as that of the city.
One spring morning, the latest challenge erupts. The brutal murder of a
prominent Freedom High School sports coach leads Buddy into a
clandestine universe of sexual deception, play parties, unwitting
athletes, over-privileged youths, treacherous bullies, and shocking
malfeasance.
At the same time, a sudden scourge of graffiti is disfiguring both
public and private property, despoiling the beauty and serenity of
Freedom's unassuming landscape. Outraged, knowing he has few legal
weapons to wield, Buddy is forced to find new and challenging ways to
thwart the street artist, or artists, responsible. Irreverent and
imaginative, not to say manipulative, Buddy is just the man for the job.
Buddy's plate is soon full and the stakes are enormous as he sets about
bringing resolution to a glut of seemingly irresolute occurrences.
One on One follows Missing Persons, Buddy's first investigation in
Freedom.
