Girl With a Past
by Sherri Leigh James
Girl With A Past, a debut mystery novel by Sherri Leigh James, tells the story of two Cal co-eds separated by 40 years whose lives become murderously intertwined.UC Berkeley in 1969 could be a murderous place for a Cal co-ed. Lexi Johnson thought tear gas on campus was all she had to fear the day she was murdered.In 2008, Alexandra Johnson looks into the 1969 unsolved murder of her father's best friend and fellow Cal student. Her interest in Lexi's murder triggers attempts on her own life forcing her to solve the cold case homicide in order to protect herself and her family. Multiple shootings and her mother's kidnapping have Alexandra racing to find the persons threatening her and her family.When Alexandra is shot at on campus, she realizes she may know more about the earlier serial shootings than anyone would suspect. Some clues are found in the hippie era including the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco, the People's Park protests in Berkeley, and the hedonist counterculture...