California Girl: Jefferson Parker

1968, Southern California: a beauty queen lies dead among the orange groves... her head sawn off. It's Detective Nick Becker's first case. Nick and his brothers are local boys. All of them knew the pretty girl lying in the morgue. The product of a troubled family, she had needed rescuing. Now it's too late for Nick to help - except by catching her killer. But America is in a strange state in '68, with no state more strange than California. And the dead girl's life was more complex than anyone could have imagined. Four decades later, Nick discovers that the man he arrested may have been innocent and that he will have to search the darkest corners of his family's history to find the truth.