Shows like Twin Peaks use dead girls to play out fantasies of committing violent acts against women.
Alice Bolin’s debut collection of essays, Dead Girls, illuminates a mystery that has plagued me ever since 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 beautiful, young, white girl.
