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California Bear : a novel / Duane Swierczynski.

Summary:

"Jack Queen has been exonerated and freed from prison thanks to retired LAPD officer Cato Hightower. But when guilt gnaws at Jack, he admits: "I actually did it." To which Hightower responds: "Yeah, no kidding." You see, the ex-cop has a special job in mind for the ex-con.... Fifteen-year-old Matilda Finnerty has been handed a potential death sentence in the form of a leukemia diagnosis. But that's not going to stop her from tackling the most important mystery of her life: Is her father guilty of murder? Jeanie Hightower mends family trees for a living, but the genealogist is unable to repair her own marriage. And her soon-to-be ex may have entangled her in a scheme that has drawn the bloody wrath of... THE BEAR: A prolific serial killer who disappeared forty years ago, who is only now emerging from hibernation when the conditions are just right. And this time, the California Bear is not content to hunt in the shadows." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780316382977
ISBN: 0316382973
Physical Description: 357 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2024.

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Subject:

Serial murderers > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Cancer > Patients > Fiction.
Vigilantes > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Women genealogists > Fiction.
Ex-police officers > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
California > Fiction.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.

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