The Alienist Av Caleb Carr

<p><b>The </b><b>internationally bestselling </b><b>historical thriller, soon to be a Netflix series starring Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning and </b><b>Daniel Brühl.<br></b><br>Some things never change.<br><br>New York City, 1896. Hypocrisy in high places is rife, police corruption commonplace, and a brutal killer is terrorising young male prostitutes.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p>