Based loosely on a true story which germinated from the author's discovery of two human skulls in 1994 in "a remote Utah canyon."
It's a little like a Bonnie and Clyde story as Clint and Lucile vagabond their way around the west in the 1930s. Lucile is just a little more than a child and Clint is a psychopath with no redeeming features.
"At the sound of the first gunshot, she sat upright. the moon was newly risen, and it bathed the canyon floor in a wan and bone-colored light She stood. From the edge of the escarpment she could make out the shape of an old line shack, but nothing else beyond. Not horseman nor buckboard wagon nor the night camp of the Indian drovers. The second gunshot was met by the barking of the sheepdog, and at the third gunshot, the barking stopped."
Vincent Bugliosi (author of Helter Skelter) reviews this as "a remarkably fine novel in prose as stylish and engaging as one will find: a compelling saga of murder, mystery and good and evil at its rawest in the hardscrabble rural Southwest of the 1920s."
One can read this in a day and it has a great photo on the cover. I almost always choose new books on the basis of reviews and intriguing dust jackets.
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