Murderland Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

<p><b>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>Prairie Fires</i> 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.<br></b><br>Pulitzer Prize-winning author 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?<br><br> As <i>Murderland</i> 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 S