Collette will be hosting.When 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 perpetrator based on the
details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the
tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again
before their hunt is over.
Fast-paced and riveting, infused with historical detail, The Alienist
conjures up Gilded Age New York, with its tenements and mansions,
corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy
gin mills. It is an age in which questioning society’s belief that
all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and fatal
consequences.
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