The Alienist

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages. -Entertainment Weekly Caleb Carr's rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us. -The Detroit NewsWhen The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere.The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler-a psychologist, or alienist -to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the...

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