Why Is Everyone in the Northwest So Obsessed with Serial Killers?

A review of Alice Bolin's collection of essays, Dead Girls.by Rich SmithAlice Bolin's debut collection of essays, Dead Girls, illuminates amystery that has plagued me eversince I moved to the Pacific Northwest: Why is everyone out here so obsessed with serial killers?Bolin approaches the question with a suite of four essays that lay out the mechanics of what she calls the "dead girl" trope, pulling from many specimens of noir and any other narrative instigated by the horrific murder of a beautif