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At the Heart of a Monster

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

October 20, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

In 1896, a serial killer targets boys who work as prostitutes in the seedy parts of New York City. A controversial psychiatrist, then called an alienist, and a reporter gather an investigative team in order to identify the killer through the usage of scientific methods like forensics and an early form of profiling. I actually thought that I’d like this more because on the surface it has all the ingredients that I usually enjoy, like a well-researched historical background, cameos by a parade of historical […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Caleb Carr, cbr11bingo, pajiba

blauracke's CBR11 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Caleb Carr, cbr11bingo, pajiba ·
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Truly one of my white whales. #CBRBingo

August 10, 2018 by narfna 4 Comments

Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #6 out of 11 The Alienist has been on my TBR practically since I joined Goodreads ten years ago. I no longer remember whose review or what list prompted me to add this book. (But thank you, whoever you were! I really liked it!) I had this book on my TBR so long that it almost didn’t make it through several TBR purges. I distinctly remember being on the verge of deleting it at least twice, and then […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Caleb Carr, cbr10bingo, crime, dr. laszlo kriezler, historical fiction, mystery, narfna, serial killers, THE ALIENIST

narfna's CBR10 Review No:95 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Caleb Carr, cbr10bingo, crime, dr. laszlo kriezler, historical fiction, mystery, narfna, serial killers, THE ALIENIST ·
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About What One Would Expect for a Book Being Adapted Into a Series Starring Luke Evans

January 19, 2018 by Dustin Rowles 1 Comment

This is a re-read, although I wasn’t certain of that at first. The Alienist seemed like a book I might have read in the 1990s, but I had no recollection of it until I started reading it again, and by “reading” it, I mean, listening to the abridged audiobook ahead of TNT series set to debut next week. It wasn’t really until about a quarter of the way through before it really began to register that I’d read it before, and I found it about […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Caleb Carr, THE ALIENIST

Dustin Rowles's CBR10 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Caleb Carr, THE ALIENIST ·
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One In A Crowd

June 7, 2015 by BlackRabbit Leave a Comment

The story itself is an odd hodgepodge of ideas, mixing cruel noblemen, Scottish Nationalism, mysterious deaths, and the possibility of supernatural forces at work (which in itself is a dubious idea in Sherlock’s world, given his firm adherence to practicality and logic).

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: BlackRabbit, Caleb Carr, CBR7, Sherlock Holmes

BlackRabbit's CBR7 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: BlackRabbit, Caleb Carr, CBR7, Sherlock Holmes ·
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