cojen13 's review for:

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

2.75

dark sad slow-paced

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I love her writing but I really didn’t care for this book.  I found the crime scene details to be too graphic, the random inserts about her own experience growing up to be odd.  Other than that bridges carry cars and cars emit leaded gas (back then) I don’t understand the inclusion of all the bridges.  I do find the science interesting and spent most of the book wondering why the impact seems to only create male serial killers and that’s kind of explained.  I am not sure I buy into the central tenant but it was fascinating to read what was allowed before the EPA and what might be allowed now that it’s toothless.  The world deserves better