Alienista with delivery to Ireland

New York, 1896. The city is shaken by a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes. Corrupt police officers are conducting the official investigation, but a secret team set up by Theodore Roosevelt, later President of the United States, is working independently of them. The key figure in this team is the alienist of the title (today we would say psychopathologist), Laszlo Kreizler, who draws on all his knowledge to penetrate the darkest recesses of the murderer's mind and so pick up his trail.

Alienista brilliantly combines elements of the historical novel, the psychological novel and the thriller, while painting an extraordinary picture of New York in an era of great change.

Caleb Carr is a novelist and journalist. He lives and works in New York.