'Murderland reads like a true crime thriller' SUNDAY TIMES
'Haunting, elegant and fiercely intelligent' OBSERVER
'Lyrically luminescent' NEW YORK TIMES
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 only one among many that dotted the area.
As Fraser's 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 non-fiction thriller, Murderland transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.
'Breathlessly propulsive . . . Fraser's prose is lyrical, elegiac' JOYCE CAROL OATES, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
'Extraordinarily well-written and genre-defying . . . a moody masterpiece' NEW YORKER
'A powerful plea' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Compelling, beautifully written . . . at heart, a cry of outrage' WASHINGTON POST
'Wonderfully propulsive and hard to put down' ATLANTIC
'Brooding and often brave' BOSTON GLOBE
'Not to be missed' CHICAGO TRIBUNE
'Sharp, incandescent' SEATTLE TIMES
'A great writer can make art of the most grotesque material, and Fraser does' WALL STREET JOURNAL
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- Authors:
- Fraser, Caroline
- Year Published:
- 2025
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- Illustrations Note:
- 16pp colour plate section or two 8pp colour plate section; two maps
- ISBN:
- 9780349127545
- Number of Pages:
- 480
- Publication Date:
- 10/06/2025
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Language:
- English
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9780349127545