A USA Today Best of 2022, and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller!
A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker.
Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment.
Matt Anthony is just trying get by.
Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Momβs a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brotherβs fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure sheβs just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesnβt believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach.
All Matt really wants to do is get his driverβs license and ask out the girl heβs been crushing on since fourth grade, yet itβs up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops donβt trust the hippies and the hippies donβt trust the cops, uncovering whatβs really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast.
If itβs not already too late.
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