About the book: year / Mysteries of Carey Locke - 1 In the book TRAIL OF DEATH, Cary Locke, a detective in the missing persons unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, is still investigating the abduction of her own daughter who disappeared many years ago. Still obsessed with finding her, Carey loses herself in the only way she can: immersing herself in missing persons cases with the LAPD. A routine phone call from a worried schoolgirl's mother, two hours late after school, should be ignored. But something in her mother's voice touches Cary, and she decides to start investigating. What she finds shocks her. The senator's missing daughter was hiding secrets that no one knew about. When all evidence points to the girl running away, Cary is ordered to abandon the investigation. And yet, despite pressure from her superiors and the media, despite the fact that all the leads lead to a dead end, the brilliant and obsessed Carey refuses to abandon the girl to her fate. She knows she only has 48 hours if she wants this girl back alive..