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Murderland : Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers Caroline Fraser
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593657225
ISBN-13
9780593657225
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14070921762
Product Key Features
Book Title
Murderland : Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Sociology / General, Murder / Serial Killers, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa)
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2025-001189
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"This work of speculative true crime by a Pulitzer Prize winner returns Fraser to the Pacific Northwest where she grew up, a region once known for both its toxic industry--including a mammoth copper smelter in Tacoma, Wa.--and its serial killers. Fraser provocatively connects the two, tracing suggestive links between the poisoned air, water and soil, and the violence perpetrated by men like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and Gary Ridgway." -- The New York Times "In Murderland , Fraser returns to her own native landscape, the Pacific Northwest, to explore why the region has produced such a large number of serial killers. In this brooding and often brave book, the author finds evil afoot, but the worst monsters aren't who you'd guess." -- The Boston Globe "A strange and compelling tale . . . Initially, Murderland seems as crazy as the killers it portrays. But Fraser, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has the skills to pull it off, and once she gets going, the theory she espouses seems plausible." -- Washington Independent Review of Books "[Fraser] makes a case that isn't merely convincing; it's downright damning, showing how lead seeped into literally every aspect of life for those who lived near a smelter--and even for those who didn't--via leaded gas and paint. Fraser follows the exploits of the similarly deadly and devastating serial killers and ASARCO (American Smelting and Refining Company) in a narrative that is gripping, harrowing, and timely." -- Booklist (starred review) "What makes a murderer? Pulitzer winner Fraser ( Prairie Fires ) makes a convincing case for arsenic and lead poisoning as contributing factors in this eyebrow-raising account . . . her methodical research and lucid storytelling argue persuasively for linking the health of the planet to the safety of its citizens. This is a provocative and page-turning work of true crime." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A provocative, eerily lyrical study of the heyday of American serial killers. From the 1940s through the 1980s, the number of serial killers in the U.S. rose precipitously, and the Pacific Northwest was, disproportionately, home for them . . . Fraser's book is an engrossing and disturbing portrait of decades of carnage that required decades to confront. A true-crime story written with compassion, fury, and scientific sense." -- Kirkus (starred review) "This book is a mapping, of murderers and their victims, yes, but also of the battle between nature and society, a battle staged out on the edge of America and in the hearts of the people who live there. It started by trying to understand why so many killers come from the Pacific Northwest but by the end it had cracked open the most taboo corners of the American psyche. This story is a menace and a beauty. It left me deeply unsettled--by the idea of monsters, by the myth of free will, and by all the realms of cause and effect that remain unexplored." -- Wright Thompson, New York Times bestselling author of The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, "A provocative, eerily lyrical study of the heyday of American serial killers. From the 1940s through the 1980s, the number of serial killers in the U.S. rose precipitously, and the Pacific Northwest was, disproportionately, home for them . . . Fraser's book is an engrossing and disturbing portrait of decades of carnage that required decades to confront. A true-crime story written with compassion, fury, and scientific sense." -- Kirkus (starred review) "This book is a mapping, of murderers and their victims, yes, but also of the battle between nature and society, a battle staged out on the edge of America and in the hearts of the people who live there. It started by trying to understand why so many killers come from the Pacific Northwest but by the end it had cracked open the most taboo corners of the American psyche. This story is a menace and a beauty. It left me deeply unsettled--by the idea of monsters, by the myth of free will, and by all the realms of cause and effect that remain unexplored." -- Wright Thompson, New York Times bestselling author of The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, "This book is a mapping, of murderers and their victims, yes, but also of the battle between nature and society, a battle staged out on the edge of America and in the hearts of the people who live there. It started by trying to understand why so many killers come from the Pacific Northwest but by the end it had cracked open the most taboo corners of the American psyche. This story is a menace and a beauty. It left me deeply unsettled--by the idea of monsters, by the myth of free will, and by all the realms of cause and effect that remain unexplored." -- Wright Thompson, New York Times bestselling author of The Barn, Pappyland, and The Cost of These Dreams
Dewey Decimal
364.152309795
Synopsis
A National Bestseller "Scorching, seductive . . . A superb and disturbing vivisection of our darkest urges." -- Los Angeles Times "This is about as highbrow as true crime gets." -- Vulture "Fraser has outdone herself, and just about everyone else in the true-crime genre, with Murderland ." -- Esquire From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires 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 Caroline 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 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. A propulsive nonfiction thriller, Murderland transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.
LC Classification Number
HV6533.N96F73 2025
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- 0***a (3058)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseTerrific book; thanks!
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