Outside Valentine

Caril Ann Fugate was only 14 when she met up with Charles Starkweather, but she fell instantly in love with him, and together they committed a series of gruesome murders in the 1950s that rocked the quiet city of Lincoln, Nebraska. Liza Ward's novel takes off from that true event, with a young Lincoln teenager, Susan Hurst, who becomes obsessed with the story, and Lowell Bowman, a son of two of the victims. The stories of the killers, Susan, and Lowell intertwine in a literary thriller that is about love as much as it is about death. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.