Synopsis
The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more—unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has ushered in the era of Johnson, hippies, John Birchers, and LSD. Clay becomes a casualty of a far-off jungle war. Nick becomes a cop, Andy a reporter, David a minister. And a terrible crime touches them all in ways they could never have anticipated when the mutilated corpse of teenage beauty queen Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned warehouse.
About T. Jefferson Parker
See more books from this AuthorWhen the same setting is cordoned off as a murder scene fifteen years later, in October, 1968, with Janelle the brutally mistreated victim, Nick Becker, homicide detective for Tustin PD, is there.
Sep 01 2004 | Read Full Review of California Girl: A NovelWhile three of his novels (THE BLUE HOUR, BLACK LIGHT and BLACK WATER) have featured detective Merci Rayborn, most of his books have been stand-alone works, with Parker choosing to let each of his novels rise or fall on its own merits.
Dec 26 2010 | Read Full Review of California Girl: A NovelOriginally posted Oct 01, 2004 Published in issue #786 Oct 01, 2004 Order article reprints
Oct 01 2004 | Read Full Review of California Girl: A NovelT Jefferson Parker reconstructed the turmoil of the Vietnam era in Orange County, California in his last book, RED LIGHT.
| Read Full Review of California Girl: A NovelTom Nolan Knight Ridder 3.5 of 5 Stars "Set mainly in 1968 Southern California, Parker’s novel is an evocative trip back to the days of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, hippies, LSD, Charles Manson, Richard Nixon, peace protests and the rising anger against the war in Vietnam.
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