A review by valett
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser

challenging dark sad tense

3.0

I'm glad to finally know why my Tacoma-raised dad is batshit and mean (spoiler: heavy metals), but I could've done with roughly 150 fewer pages devoted to describing real-life rape, torture, murder, and necrophilia in depth. A well-researched read that would be more groundbreaking if it were less obsessively lurid.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail