Betty Buick: The Next Teen

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes and meet challenges any time of year. On a daily basis, heroes run around doing routine jobs that need doing without attracting attention. That is until they hit an obstacle that conceals itself so well you would be forgiven for believing you could go around it and return later to fix it. Detectives regularly encounter obstacles during an investigation and just as regularly choose an option to either go around or through it. DCI Betty Buick usually did the latter. Twenty years of experience and success at solving crime confirmed that her direct approach was a winner. When offered to lead a new unit based at New Scotland Yard her initial reluctance dissipated in seconds after learning what was expected. The Irregular Missing Peron (IMP) unit was to focus on only the strangest missing person investigations. No investigation would be too wide from reality. From alien abductions, the paranormal, and even time travelers from our future. If someone went missing in irregular circumstances IMP would be handed the case. Just how it would go about its investigation was something else. No instruction book had been written and ad-libbing seemed the way to go. Buick couldn't have been more delighted. A personal interest in witchcraft, the tarot, and Asian predictive systems together with a sister who studied Egyptology attracted an interest that went beyond the job. The Next Teen was just such an investigation.