Publisher's Synopsis
1968, Southern California: a beauty queen lies dead among the orange groves. It's Homicide Detective Nick Becker's first case. Nick and his brothers knew the girl now lying in the morgue. The product of a troubled family, she had been in need of rescuing. Now it's too late for Nick to help - except by catching her killer. But America is in a strange state in '68, particularly in the state of California. And the dead girl's life was more complex than anyone could have imagined Four decades on, 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
