Caleb Carr

In the sequel to the best-selling period thriller, The Alienist, a turn-of-the-century New York doctor confronts a cunning murderer defended by the great Clarence Darrow in a riveting trial. Reprint.

The Angel of Darkness

Originally published: New York: Random House, 1994.

The Alienist

Book 3

The Alienist at Armageddon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Imaginative and fulfilling . . . an addictive contemporary crime procedural.”—Michael Connelly, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Caleb Carr, the author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, returns with a contemporary, edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring the brilliant but unconventional criminal psychologist Dr. Trajan Jones. In the small town of Surrender in upstate New York, Dr. Jones, a psychological profiler, and Dr. Michael Li, a trace evidence expert, teach online courses in profiling and forensic science from Jones’s family farm. Once famed advisors to the New York City Police Department, Trajan and Li now work in exile, having made enemies of those in power. Protected only by farmhands and Jones’s unusual “pet,” the outcast pair is unexpectedly called in to consult on a disturbing case. In rural Burgoyne County, a pattern of strange deaths has emerged: adolescent boys and girls are found murdered in gruesome fashion. Senior law enforcement officials are quick to blame a serial killer, yet their efforts to apprehend this criminal are peculiarly ineffective. Jones and Li soon discover that the victims are all “throwaway children,” a new state classification of young people who are neither orphans, runaways, nor homeless, but who are abandoned by their families and left to fend for themselves. Two of these throwaways, Lucas Kurtz and his older sister, Ambyr, cross paths with Jones and Li, offering information that could blow the case wide open. As the stakes grow higher, Jones and Li must not only unravel the mystery of how the throwaways died but also defend themselves and the Kurtz siblings against shadowy agents who don’t want the truth to get out. Jones believes the real story leads back to the city where both he and Dr. Kreizler did their greatest work. But will Jones and Li be able to trace the case to New York before they fall victim to the murderous forces that stalk them? Tautly paced and richly researched, Surrender, New York brings to life the grim underbelly of a prosperous nation—and those most vulnerable to its failings. This brilliant novel marks another milestone in Caleb Carr’s triumphant literary suspense career. Praise for Surrender, New York “[A] page-turning thriller . . . For maximum enjoyment: surrender, reader.”—The Wall Street Journal “Every word of fiction Carr has produced seems to have been written in either direct or indirect conversation with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. . . . [Surrender, New York] allows Carr to deploy his indisputable gift for the gothic and the macabre, and the pursuit is suspenseful and believable.”—USA Today “[A] long-awaited return.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] superb mystery . . . [that moves] at a swift and often terrifying pace. As in The Alienist, Carr triumphs at every twist and turn.”—Providence Journal “Edgar Allan Poe would have understood this book and hailed it a masterpiece. . . . A terrific story with a great setting and a very modern social message.”—The Globe and Mail “[An] engrossing mystery.”—Library Journal “A compulsive read . . . Carr once again delivers a high-stakes thriller featuring a new band of clever, determined outcasts.”—Booklist (starred review) “Carr’s many fans will find this well worth the wait.”—Kirkus Reviews

A Novel

Surrender, New York

This book tells the tale of American mercenary, Frederick Townsend Ward. A courageous leader who became the first American mandarin, Ward won crucial victories for the Emperor of China during the Taiping Rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war.

The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China

The Devil Soldier

The author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness presents another angle on the Sherlock Holmes saga, setting the legendary detective on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family. Reprint.

A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

The Italian Secretary

A Halál angyala

'An extraordinary novel' Observer It is the greatest truth of our age: information is not knowledge. Manhattan, September 13, 2023. Vera Price's husband has been murdered, and she wants criminal psychologist Dr Gideon Wolfe to investigate. On a disk she gives Gideon is the information that almost certainly cost her husband his life. For America is still in shock after the murder of its President, and the disk suggests the wrong man has been convicted. The world is drowning in information. And in a sea of unregulated and unverifiable facts, the truth is harder and harder to find. And as Gideon discovers, although there are those who want to put an end to this, their actions have dangerous consequences, not just for him, but for the whole world, for time itself. . . From the massively bestselling author of The Alienist - soon to be a major TV show - comes the most ambitious thriller of our time.

Killing Time

Die Einkreisung

L'alienista

Ruh avcısı

Alienist at Armageddon

Tout commence lorsque Sherlock Holmes reçoit un télégramme de son frère Mycroft qui l'appelle à l'aide : proche conseiller de la reine Victoria, ce dernier craint pour la vie de la souveraine. En effet, deux de ses serviteurs ont été percés de plus de cinquante coups de poignard, exactement comme le secrétaire italien de Marie Stuart, assassiné trois siècles auparavant. Et on sait que celle-ci a fini sans tête... Il n'en faut pas plus à Holmes et à son fidèle Watson pour accourir sur les lieux du drame et démontrer que la force de déduction vient toujours à bout de l'inextricable quand il s'agit de défendre l'ordre, l'Empire et la reine.

roman

Le secrétaire italien

A sötétség angyala

L'Ange des ténèbres

"Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn't mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They're called "throwaways" because their parents have abandoned them, and the official response to their deaths seems equally callous. Trajan and Mike, armed only with their instincts and the help of a precocious neighborhood boy, fight for justice on behalf of the victims, but it soon puts them in a merciless killer's crosshairs"--

Mycroft Holmes, charged with ensuring the personal safety of Queen Victoria, calls on his brother for help when a number of attempts have been made on her life and when two unexplained deaths occur amongst the staff at her Scottish residencies. Accompanied by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes goes north by train, examining the few facts Mycroft has been able to cryptically supply. To Watson's bafflement he is sure there is a link between these deaths and the murder in the old royal apartments at Holyrood of the secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots: a killing which left a bloodstain that daily refreshes itself and in a room where voices can be heard in the darkest hours of the night. Can Holmes's extraordinary deductive powers solve the historical crime as well as the contemporary one? An original, beautifully crafted mystery story which is also a respectful homage to the master of the whodunnit.

The bestselling author of THE ALIENIST and ANGEL OF DARKNESS puts a very special spin on a mystery thriller set twenty-five years in the future. A contemporary successor to such dystopian classics as BRAVE NEW WORLD and 1984.

A Novel of the Future

Como alguém desenvolve a habilidade de matar de maneira tão cruel? O ano é 1896. A cidade é Nova York. O repórter John Schuyler Moore é tirado de sua casa no meio da noite abruptamente. Nada poderia prepará-lo para o que encontraria em seguida. Convocado por seu amigo dr. Laszlo Kreizler, psicólogo ou alienista – especialista em doenças da mente –, Moore é levado para ver o corpo horrivelmente mutilado de um adolescente abandonado na inacabada Ponte de Williamsburg. Os dois então embarcam em uma tentativa que pode revolucionar a criminologia: criar o perfil psicológico do assassino com base nos detalhes de seus crimes. Sua busca perigosa leva-os ao passado de tortura e à mente problemática de um serial killer que pode matar novamente a qualquer momento. O alienista evoca a era dourada da Nova York do século XIX e nos faz questionar: uma pessoa capaz de cometer crimes hediondos já carrega tais impulsos desde seu nascimento ou é o meio em que ela nasce e vive que determina tal desfecho terrível? O livro perfeito para os fãs de Mindhunter, que levará os leitores a uma experiência intensa pela mente do assassino mais cruel do século XIX.

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