Caleb Carr

Book Preview A year after the events of “The Alienist”, the characters are brought together to investigate a crime committed in the New York of the 1890s. A child, the daughter of Spanish diplomats, disappears, but there is no ransom note. The prime suspect is a nurse connected to the deaths of three infants. A … Read more

Book Preview NOTE Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be “alienated,” not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists. Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to … Read more