That said, California Girl is a murder mystery that ranks with the best in terms of storytelling, compelling characters, and an engaging writing style. Parker draws you in quickly and doesn't let go: the book hums along at a deceptively leisurely pace, and you quickly begin to take as much interest in some of the subordinate storylines as you do in solving the mystery of Janelle's death. It's a trip into the past, into the "different world" of the late 1960s - a different world that at times seems ever so familiar.
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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