Liza Ward

A haunting and striking account of the imagined inner lives of real people caught up in terrible events

Impeccably drawn...astonishingly poetic yet palpable prose

In 1958, as the snow fell across Nebraska, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann, climbed into a stolen car and blazed into history with a string of bloody murders that stunned America. But why, over thirty years later, does Lowell, a Manhattan antiques collector, still dream of what happened? And who is Puggy, the young girl obsessed by the murders? And then there's Caril Ann's version of the story - from the day she first met Charlie to the end of their rampage on a farm outside the town of Valentine.<br/>
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Disturbing and intense, <i>Outside Valentine</i> is a story of devastating losses and the transforming power of love.

Outside Valentine

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Compelling... captivating. A must-read

A haunting and striking account of the imagined inner lives of real people caught up in terrible events

Impeccably drawn...astonishingly poetic yet palpable prose

Compelling... captivating. A must-read

A haunting and striking account of the imagined inner lives of real people caught up in terrible events

Impeccably drawn...astonishingly poetic yet palpable prose

Compelling... captivating. A must-read

A haunting and striking account of the imagined inner lives of real people caught up in terrible events

Impeccably drawn...astonishingly poetic yet palpable prose

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