Description: In this emotionally wrenching tale set in 1960s California, the lives of three brothers are forever changed when the body of a lovely and mysterious teenage beauty queen is discovered in an abandoned orange packing house.
Brief description:
T. Jefferson Parker is the bestselling author of seventeen novels, including the Edgar(R) Award winners California Girl and Silent Joe. Alongside Dick Francis and James Lee Burke, he is one of only three writers who has won the Edgar(R) Award for Best Novel more than once. Parker lives with his family in Southern California.
Review Quotes:
"Evocative. Delicately crafted." - Orlando Sentinel
"Intricately plotted." - Publishers Weekly
"Fascinating." - Wichita Falls, TX, Times Record News
"California Girl is wound tight as a spring and filled with characters you won't soon forget. Parker is superb." - Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of TEN BIG
"Grabs the reader in a stranglehold of poignancy and suspense that doesn't let up until the final page." - New Mystery Reader
"Visceral." - New York Times
"Drum-tight prose and richly layered characters." - Entertainment Weekly
"Love, lust, murder, betrayal...brilliant." - Kirkus Reviews
"One of the most entertaining tough-guy writers." - Esquire
"A man much praised doesn't need more encomiums; but T. Jefferson Parker deserves all he gets." - Los Angeles Times
"The book is a gripping, atmospheric saga...wonderfully evokes its time and place. California Girl is an unforgettable book." - Wall Street Journal
"A piercing piece of storytelling." - Reviewing The Evidence
"Powerful. . . . T. Jefferson Parker weaves an intense, gut-wrenching and redemptive story around a character who jumps off the page and into your heart." - Michael Connelly
"T. Jefferson Parker writes with a keen eye and an incandescent moral edge." - Robert Ferrigno, author of Dead Man's Dance and The Horse Latitudes, on Where Serpents Lie