Lt. Leroy Powder

Lt. Leroy Powder, Indianapolis PD, investigates a series of gruesome murders and the disappearance of a teenage girl. Six burglaries, two assaults, one armed robbery, and a bomb scare all come in at the tail end of Lt. Leroy Powder's swing shift in the night cover room of the Indianapolis PD - a shift he's been working for nineteen years. About to wrap up, he gets a call from low-level criminal Johnny Uncle, who claims to have found a body. The cause of death is strangulation. There's no sign of sexual assault, no apparent motive, and no form of ID on the corpse - including prints because the killer took a sledgehammer to the victim's hands postmortem. But Powder's problems have only begun: This body won't be the last.

Reluctantly heading up the Indianapolis PD's Missing Persons Bureau, Lt. Leroy Powder investigates a series of unusual cases while training a female sergeant. Indianapolis police lieutenant Leroy Powder's new job in Missing Persons calls for tact, sensitivity, and diplomacy: three traits no one would use to describe the lieutenant. He also has to break in a new sergeant, Carollee Fleetwood. Taking a bullet for her partner in the line of duty made Fleetwood a hero. It also relegated her to a wheelchair. But this cop gives as good as she gets, and won't take any sass from her unconventional superior as, together, the two take on a series of very strange cases.

A child reports a missing father, Indianapolis's disabled are being killed off, and Lt. Leroy Powder's sergeant is hassling him: just an ordinary day for the cranky cop. Lt. Leroy Powder, the crankiest and most arrogant cop on the Indianapolis PD, is presented with a seemingly routine case: A twelve-year-old kid wants to report his dad missing. But Powder knows that the most complicated cases often start with something apparently simple. And now his own son has just been released from prison. As Powder's work and personal life collide, there's nothing left to do but deal with it. And - if possible - steer clear of a conspiracy that puts him in the sights of the FBI.