Tue, Jun 10
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Caroline Fraser, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of "Prairie Fires" 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.
Date, Time & Location
Jun 10, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Caroline Fraser will be in conversation with Alex Heard, Executive Editor, Searchlight NM
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Pre-order Murderland ($32, hardcover, publishing June 10) from CWB online here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
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?
As Murderland 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,…