Murderland by Caroline Fraser PB

Some true-crime books make you look over your shoulder. This one makes you rethink the very ground beneath your feet.

From Caroline Fraser, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires, comes a book that has swept the literary world off its salty boots. Murderland is an Edgar Award finalist for True Crime, a National Bestseller, a Washington Post Notable Book, and a finalist for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. It was also named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Vulture, and a long list of others.

Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, surrounded by his hunting grounds in the brooding Pacific Northwest. But Bundy was just one name among a chilling wave of serial murderers—the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler. Why so many? Why then? Why there?

The answer she uncovers is startling. Beneath the noir mythology lies an overlapping pattern of environmental poison: lead, copper, and arsenic smelters warping the land and, perhaps, young minds along with it.

As Vulture put it, “This is about as highbrow as true crime gets.” Esquire agreed: “Fraser has outdone herself, and just about everyone else in the true-crime genre.”

This is a propulsive, deeply researched thriller that transcends voyeurism entirely. A book to linger over. Perfect for a rainy afternoon here in the cove, when the fog rolls in off the water and you want a story that truly unsettles.

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