It’s not as if we needed another book about serial killers of the Pacific Northwest. There are dozens already, even a serial killer coloring book for adults: Hi, I’m Ted. Seriously!
Pulitzer-prize winning author Caroline Fraser, who grew up in the Seattle area, has added one more to the serial killer genre; this one with a novel twist.
Fraser’s 402-page tome covers not one, but three serial killers with Puget Sound region connections—Ted Bundy (who needs no introduction), Gary Ridgway (the Green River Killer), and Charles Manson (who served five years at McNeil Island before his cult followers went on a murder spree in LA.)
Appropriately titled Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, Fraser’s book seeks to answer the question we’ve all had for decades: what gives with all the serial killers around here? Is it the depressing winters? Something in the water? Something these demented predators shared in common?…