The Angel Of Darkness: Number 2 in series - Couverture souple

Carr, Caleb

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0751547271 ISBN 13 : 9780751547276

Editeur : Sphere, 2011

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“As winning a historical thriller as The Alienist . . . The reader keeps right on turning the pages.”—The New York Times
 
“A ripping yarn told with verve, intensity, and a feel for historical detail . . . Once again we are careening around the gaslighted New York that [Caleb] Carr knows, and depicts, so well.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Gripping . . . Carr is at his strongest, exploring the dark underside of the human psyche and ferreting out the terrors and tragedies that drive men—and women—to kill. . . . In Libby Hatch, Carr has created a villain whose cunning is nearly equal to his detectives’ crime-solving prowess. . . . The mystery is plotted with military precision.”—USA Today
 
“[A] whopping thriller . . . Carr keeps us racing along with him to the very end.”—The Washington Post Book World
 
“Fascinating . . . In a brilliant bit of historical casting, Clarence Darrow, a rising courtroom wizard from Chicago, turns up to defend the villain at a tense upstate New York murder trial.”—Time
 
“Darkly compelling . . . vivid and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
“Suspenseful . . . Through the observations, discoveries, and confusions of his idiosyncratic detective squad, Carr deftly scrutinizes ‘the secret sins of American society’ and the perpetual proposition that the greatest mystery is the human mind.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“[An] adept mixture of period detail and psychological sleuthing . . . Filled with enough outsized personalities and sensational events to keep the most jaded tabloid reader eagerly turning its pages.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Here’s New York circa 1897, city of unparalleled corruption and splendor, city of fine dining and seedy taverns. . . . Few writers are as adept [as Carr] at fashioning revelations that detonate, chapter by chapter, like carefully positioned explosions.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“Penetrating . . . an entertainingly convincing read.”—People
 
“Solidly scary . . . a terrific sequel . . . better and more suspenseful than its pulse-pounding predecessor.”—The Plain Dealer
 
“[A] labyrinth of crime and psychology . . . What worked so well in the first book—late-nineteenth-century New York City with all its splendor and warts—is just as engaging in the second. . . . Is The Angel of Darkness as good as its predecessor? No. It’s better.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune
 
“Another crowd-pleaser . . .This case begins with the brazen kidnapping of an infant. Before it’s over, readers will be treated to some chilling insights from one of the earliest practitioners in psychology; plunge into a courtroom battle pitted against none other than Clarence Darrow; and follow Teddy Roosevelt with a handpicked batch of sailors through the gang-infested streets of lower Manhattan.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
“A spirited yarn . . . both a tale of serial murder and an argument for understanding the criminal mind.”—Boston Herald

Présentation de l'éditeur

A year after the events narrated in The Alienist, the cast of characters from that novel are again brought together to investigate a crime committed in the heady days of New York in the 1890s, but this time narrated by the orphan Stevie Taggert. A young child, the daughter of Spanish diplomats, disappears. It seems she has been abducted but no ransom note is received and the detectives Isaacson quickly discover that a nurse, Elspeth Hunter, is probably the kidnapper. They also discover that Hunter has been a little too closely connected with the death of three other infants. But what are her motives? She married a fortune, and although she is connected to some fairly rough villains this crime does not fit their modus operandi. Is it something as 'simple' as psychological disturbance due to her own inability to bear children, or something more sinister unguessed at?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sphere
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0751547271
• ISBN 13: 9780751547276
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640