{"product_id":"murderland-crime-and-bloodlust-in-the-time-of-serial-killers-9780593657225","title":"Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A provocative and page-turning work of true crime.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A provocative, eerily lyrical study of the heyday of American serial killers . . . A true-crime story written with compassion, fury, and scientific sense.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fires\u003c\/i\u003e comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond--a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaroline 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eMurderland\u003c\/i\u003e indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem--the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson--Fraser's Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy's Tacoma stood one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the world, but it was hardly unique in the West. As Fraser's investigation inexorably proceeds, evidence mounts that the plumes of these smelters not only sickened and blighted millions of lives but also warped young minds, including some who grew up to become serial killers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA propulsive nonfiction thriller, \u003ci\u003eMurderland\u003c\/i\u003e transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Fraser \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heartland Prize, and the Plutarch Award for best biography of the year. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eGod's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church\u003c\/i\u003e, and her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325387669778,"sku":"9780593657225","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67f77fa7-052e-4bc2-ae1d-1da38d40d3c1.jpg?v=1748731782","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/murderland-crime-and-bloodlust-in-the-time-of-serial-killers-9780593657225","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}