Overview:

Outside Valentine : A riveting and intricate debut that deftly interweaves a trio of voices - haunting, dangerous and full of longing in their own ways - all somehow linked by a shocking crime and the need to escape the past. "The first day I saw Charlie behind our house with a .22 in his hand there was a whisper of the way things would go." In 1958, as the snow fell across Nebraska, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend climbed into a stolen car and blazed into history with a string of bloody murders that would haunt America.