The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney

A crime thriller that explores the aftermath of two unsolved crimes that occurred in Oklahoma City in 1986, i.e. a movie theater robbery that left six employees dead and the disappearance of a teenage girl from the State Fair. Twenty-five years later, the two survivors of these tragedies find their lives intertwined as they seek answers to the lingering questions from their respective childhoods. Berney pulls two highly unlikely mysteries together, while developing complex characters who has to deal with the very real likelihood that the events which shaped there lives could potentially go unanswered forever and we're very possibly just random acts. 4/5