November 2026 Title - Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers< /a> by Caroline Fraser
\n"Caroline Fraser grew up in the sh adow of Ted Bundy\, the most notorious serial murderer of women in America n history\, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps\, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and &rs quo\;80s\, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of ser ial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nig htmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epi demic of serial killing?
\nAs \;Murderland \;indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem&mdash\;the Green River Killer\, the I-5 Killer\, the Night Stalker\, the Hillside St rangler\, even Charles Manson&mdash\;Fraser&rsquo\;s Northwestern death tr ip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of enviro nmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy&rsquo\;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&rsquo\;s investigation in exorably 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.
\nA propulsive nonfiction thriller\, \;Murderland \;transcends true-crime voyeur ism and noir mythology\, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk." (Amazon)
\nDecember 202 6 Title - Don't Call It a Cult \;by Sarah Berman
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