Adéntrate en las sombrías calles del Nueva York victoriano, donde los inicios de la perfilación psicológica y la ciencia forense chocan con crímenes macabros. Esta serie sigue a un psicólogo brillante y poco ortodoxo y a su equipo en la caza de asesinos en serie. Profundiza en las mentes de los perpetradores y las complejidades de la sociedad de la época. Una fascinante mezcla de ficción histórica, thriller psicológico y novela de detectives.
Nueva York 1896. John Schuyler Moore reportero de sucesos del New York Times recibe en plena madrugada la llamada de su antiguo compañero de estudios en Harvard el famoso psicólogo (o alienista) Laszlo Kreizler. Éste le cita en el puente de Williamsburg donde se ha cometido un crimen horrible. Ambos amigos deberán colaborar con la policía y trazar utilizando cada uno sus habilidades el perfil psicológico del asesino.
A year after the events narrated in the bestselling 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?