Outside Valentine - Liza Ward  

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       Fictionalized story of the serial killers in the 1950s, Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.                                                            Told in 3 narratives:

  Caril Ann Fugute during her time with Charles Starkweather

 Susan , a 14 year old in love with one of the victims son, 1962

In 1991, Lowell, who is questioning his marriage to his wife and dreams of his childhood.

Goodreads:  A debut novelist interweaves a trio of voices-haunting, dangerous, full of longing--mysteriously linked by a shocking crime and the search to heal the past

Many long years have passed since the winter of blinding white when Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate drove across the hushed midwestern landscape and left a trail of blood and pain. So why does Lowell, a Manhattan collector of antiquities, still dream of what happened, despite his wife's best attempts to draw him back and offer comfort? And who is Susan, the teenager who appoints herself a detective, piecing together the story of the murders while wondering if she'll ever be loved like Starkweather loved his girl?

And then there's Caril Ann herself, who takes us back to relive the ride she swears she could not control. It began on the day Charlie first saw her, dangling her bare legs off the edge of a tree house. It ended outside Valentine, Nebraska, on that night when she still believed that life could somehow go back to being normal . . .