Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Ge and its tarnished underside with verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. #mystery#thriller#suspense#psychologicalthriller#hardcover#crime#adultfiction#fiction#calebcarr#hardcover