The Way

It's the late Sixties. Private Investigator Cole Dunbar is called in to help a friend's neighbor whose teenage daughter has disappeared. After a great deal of background investigation at the girl's high school; a local burger joint; and a Sunset Strip nightclub, where he and his son Pedro get caught up in the infamous Sunset Strip Riots, he runs across a rumor that she may have joined a cult led by a mysterious figure known only as The Way. Following this lead to Northern California has dangers of its own, as they try to find out not only where the missing girl is, but what is left of her former self.

Gregg E. Bernstein has been a psychologist and psychotherapist for over forty years, having written three books about his career, including "The Heart is My Beat," "Therapy Confidential" and "The Therapy Files." He has put this experience to good use in his series of private eye novels, "The Flower in the Sand" and "Dead All Over."