{"product_id":"murderland-9780349127538","title":"Murderland","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Caroline Fraser\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Little, Brown\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Little, Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMurderland \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ereads like a true crime thriller . . . [Fraser] makes her case with conviction' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Caroline \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFraser [is] lyrically luminescent . . . reading her prose can be like skiing powder snow on a perfect day, one lovely turn after another'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePrairie Fires\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMurderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 only one among many that dotted the area. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMurderland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn this brooding and often brave book, the author finds evil afoot, but the worst monsters aren't who you'd guess'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBOSTON GLOBE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A strange and compelling tale . . . Fraser, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has the skills to pull it off' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45608391049367,"sku":"9780349127538","price":585.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780349127538.webp?v=1769294317","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/murderland-9780349127538","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}