Murderland Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

She's got many great books, Prairie Fires, God's Perfect Child, Church, and she has a new book out now called Murderland, Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers.

Murder, land, crime, and bloodlust in the time of serial killers Seattle, Washington.

In her new book, Murderland, Crime and Bloodlust in a Time of Serial Killers, Caroline argues that the wave of serial killing in the 1970s and 80s might be related to the smelting industry's environmental pollution.

Murderland is a book with a rotating cast of villains. There's Asarco, the company that's operated giant smokestacks across the country since the late 1800s. There's the deadly Mercer Island floating bridge and the engineers behind it. And then, of course, there are the serial killers of the Pacific Northwest.

In Murderland, you trace the rise and fall of this company, Asarco. And on top of that timeline and geography, the book weaves in and out stories from your own life and memory and the rise and fall of the Mercer Island Bridge.

I found the cover of your book really striking. You have this, a sarco smelting plant in the background and Ted Bundy's face in the foreground and the images kind of blend into each other. Ted Bundy's head is also the cloud of pollution coming out of the smokestack behind him.

The book is a blend of true crime, memoir, and environmental history, all woven together. And it also features a lot of intriguing design elements.

In her new book, Murderland, Crime and Bloodlust in a Time of Serial Killers, Caroline argues that the wave of serial killing in the 1970s and 80s might be related to the smelting industry's environmental pollution.

Murderland is a book with a rotating cast of villains. There's Asarco, the company that's operated giant smokestacks across the country since the late 1800s. There's the deadly Mercer Island floating bridge and the engineers behind it. And then, of course, there are the serial killers of the Pacific Northwest.

I found the cover of your book really striking. You have this, a Asarco smelting plant in the background and Ted Bundy's face in the foreground and the images kind of blend into each other.

The book weaves in and out stories from your own life and memory and the rise and fall of the Mercer Island Bridge, and you write in great detail about the personal histories and activities of various serial killers.

Murderland was a culmination of a lot of open questions you seemed to have throughout your entire life, and it made for a fascinating, if tragic, story of an era that is fortunately seems to be over.