A very interesting read. The first 100 or so pages are quite slow but after that it picks up pace. He captures the duplicity and difference of victorian era New York quite well.
I LOVE this book. One of the best period mystery/thrillers ever, and I wish Carr had continued in this series. In both this and The Angel of Darkness, he tells the story from the point of view of one of the characters in a group that surrounds Laszlo Kreizler, the "alienist" of the title, an exper...
I really had no idea what to expect as I started reading this book. This was one of those books that I read with a group, and wasn't sure if I'd like it or not. But after the first chapter or so, I found myself completely engrossed in this story and almost unable to put it down. This was like a Sher...
hammer, hier stimmt einfach alles. ich lese das buch schon zum 2ten mal. so etwas lese ich tierisch gerne, wo unter mithilfe von meheren leuten ein mörder gesucht wird und das es in new york spielt, meine absolute traumstadt, ist natürlich besonders schön.
This is a book I've meant to read for a while. It was finally bumped up from its spot down the bottom of my TBR pile thanks to this month's group read for the Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group.Set in New York City in 1896, the novel tells the story of a team set up to investigate a series of murders...
A couple of pages before finishing The Alienist, I declared that it is the most complete mystery I have ever read. Months after finishing this book, I still don't think that was hyperbole. Using the milieu of New York City in the middle of the Gilded Age, historian-turned-novelist Caleb Carr pits th...
It's nice to read a thriller once in a while. It has good beginning, gory details and interesting historical persona. The pacing could be better especially when the character was showing off to the other about something he realized before the other. How the explanation was dragged was not so fun to ...
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