The internationally bestselling historical thriller now a major 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. 'An ingenious thriller' Independent 'Gripping
atmospheric intelligent and entertaining' USA Today 'Richly atmospheric . . . You can smell
the fear' New York Times
