Sometimes all it takes to make your day a little brighter is to remind yourself just how dark life can get. Here are four dark novels and a true crime tale.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caroline Fraser's 'Murderland' delves into the lead-crime theory behind the proliferation of ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people ...

Murderland,” by the Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser, considers possible links between the region’s industrial pollution ...

The novelist, whose latest book imagines Brontë’s life, was written as she listened almost exclusively to the Eras icon.

Caroline Fraser tells a gripping history of crime and industrial wrongs, including a toxic legacy of lead and arsenic that ...