The Alienist: Number 1 in series (Laszlo Kreizler & John Schuyler Moore) - Softcover

Carr, Caleb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751547220 ISBN 13: 9780751547221

Publisher: Sphere, 2011

Synopsis

The internationally bestselling historical thriller, soon to be a Netflix series starring Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning and Daniel Brühl.

Some things never change.

New York City, 1896. Hypocrisy in high places is rife, police corruption commonplace, and a brutal killer is terrorising young male prostitutes.

Unfortunately for Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, the psychological profiling of murderers is a practice still in its infancy, struggling to make headway against the prejudices of those who prefer the mentally ill - and the 'alienists' who treat them - to be out of sight as well as out of mind.

But as the body count rises, Roosevelt swallows his doubts and turns to the eminent alienist Dr Laszlo Kreizler to put a stop to the bloody murders - giving Kreizler a chance to take him further into the dark heart of criminality, and one step closer to death.

About this title

Review:

"You can smell the fear in the air." --"The New York Times" "Gripping, atmospheric, intelligent, and entertaining." --"USA Today" "From the Paperback edition."

Book Description:

Reissue of this ground-breaking historical whodunnit, in which 1890s New York is as much a character as the investigators

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0751547220
• ISBN 13: 9780751547221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544