No Saints in Kanses by Amy Brashear

We picked this up on a lark at the beginning of a road trip to ...Kansas!  It turned out to be just the kind of easy reading to share aloud to each other as we drove.  Sixteen year old Manhattan transplant Carly struggles to find her place in 1969 small town Kansas.  Things turn even uglier when her public defender father is required to represent the two men suspected of murdering the Clutters - a crime made famous in Truman Capote's book, In Cold Blood.  More teen age angst than anything, it was still fun to follow the historical references to Capote, Lee, Kennedy and the tenor of the time.  It was such a good story we actually made a trip to Humbolt - the very, very, very, very, small town where it all happened.  We even had coffee in the Garden City coffee shop in what was once the lobby of the hotel where Capote and Lee stayed while researching for the book. Fun!