Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Murderland Reads Like A True Crime Thriller Sunday TimesHaunting, Elegant And Fiercely Intelligent ObserverLyrically Luminescent New York Timesa Terrifying TrueCrime History Of Serial Killers In The Pacific Northwest And Beyond From The Pulitzer PrizeWinning Author Of Prairie Firescaroline Fraser Grew Up In The Shadow Of Ted Bundy, The Most Notorious Serial Murderer Of Women In American History, Surrounded By His Hunting Grounds And Mountain Body Dumps, In The Brooding Landscape Of The Pacific Northwest. But In The 1970S And 80S, Bundy Was Just One Perpetrator Amid An Uncanny Explosion Of Serial Rape And Murder Across The Region. Why So Many? Why So Weirdly And Nightmarishly Gruesome? Why The Senseless Rise And Then Sudden Fall Of An Epidemic Of Serial Killing?As Murderland Indelibly Maps The Lives And Careers Of Bundy And His Infamous Peers In Mayhem The Green River Killer, The I5 Killer, The Night Stalker, The Hillside Strangler, Even Charles Manson FraserS Northwestern Death Trip Begins To Uncover A Deeper Mystery And An Overlapping Pattern Of Environmental Destruction. At Ground Zero In Ted BundyS Tacoma, Stood One Of The Most Poisonous Lead, Copper, And Arsenic Smelters In The World, But It Was Only One Among Many That Dotted The Area.As FraserS Investigation Inexorably Proceeds, Evidence Mounts That The Plumes Of Western Smelters Not Only Sickened And Blighted Millions Of Lives, But Also Warped Young Minds, Spawning A Generation Of Serial Killers. A Propulsive NonFiction Thriller, Murderland Transcends TrueCrime Voyeurism And Noir Mythology, Taking Readers On A Profound Quest Into The Dark Heart Of The Real American Berserk.I Highly Recommend It R. F. Kuang, Author Of Katabasis, ObserverCompelling London Review Of BooksBreathlessly Propulsive . . . FraserS Prose Is Lyrical, Elegiac Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review Of BooksExtraordinarily WellWritten And GenreDefying . . . A Moody Masterpiece New YorkerA Powerful Plea Financial TimesCompelling, Beautifully Written . . . At Heart, A Cry Of Outrage Washington PostWonderfully Propulsive And Hard To Put Down AtlanticBrooding And Often Brave Boston GlobeNot To Be Missed Chicago TribuneSharp, Incandescent Seattle TimesA Great Writer Can Make Art Of The Most Grotesque Material, And Fraser Does Wall Street Journal