Caleb Carr

El thriller en que se basa la serie de TV The Alienist. Nueva York, 1896. John Schuyler Moore, reportero de sucesos de The New York Times, recibe en plena madrugada la llamada de su antiguo compañero de Harvard, el famoso alienista (como se conocia entonces a los psicologos) Laszlo Kreizler, quien le cita en el puente de Williamsburg, escenario de un horrible asesinato. Theodore Roosevelt, jefe de policia de la ciudad, solicita la colaboracion de ambos amigos para indagar el crimen, una atrevida iniciativa, pues el alienista es visto con desconfianza por una sociedad conservadora, que considera que un asesino nace y no se hace. A ellos se une Sara Howard, primera mujer que trabaja en la comisaria, y los hermanos Isaacson, pioneros en las nuevas tecnicas de investigacion. Mientras que el grupo intenta trazar el perfil psicologico de un asesino del que lo ignora todo, este parece conocerlos perfectamente...Los blogueros opinan...Estupenda novela sobre los papeles iniciales de los psicologos, psiquiatras y especialistas en enfermedades mentales en el campo de la investigacion criminal.Blog Critica de Libros Novela policiaca de la buena, de la que engancha, de la que entretiene... de la que estremece.Blog Abracalibro

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 effe

Cuando Townsend Ward llegó a Shanghai, en 1859, tenía 28 años y los bolsillos vacíos. Cuando murió en el campo de batalla, tres años más tarde, era el único estadounidense que había alcanzado el título de mandarín. Comprometido con el pueblo chino, Ward impulsó el progreso político, social y económico de un país colonizado que pasó del medioevo a la Edad Contemporánea bajo un baño de sangre.

June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friendshigh-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crimehave returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case.But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Saras aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children.Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York.

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Exquisite a beautiful book one of the finest meditations on animal companionship that I have ever read Kathryn Hughes Guardian An instant New York Times bestseller this is an unforgettable story about love loss and redemption from a highly acclaimed writerCaleb Carr lived with cats ever since he was a young boy He grew up in a turbulent household where famous Beat poets artists and addicts came and went and his steadiest companions were pets Since then he had many feline companions with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones But only after building a three story home in rural upstate New York did he encounter someone extraordinary Masha a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten and was languishing in a shelter She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters but somehow she chose him For the seventeen years that followed Caleb and Masha were inseparable Masha ruled the house and the dangerous wilderness surrounding it When she was hurt only Caleb could help her When he suffered long standing physical ailments Masha knew what to do Caleb learned to decode much of Masha s inner life but their bond went far beyond owner and pet Inspiring heart breakin

The year is 2023, five years after the assassination of President Emily Forrester, and Dr. Gideon Wolfe is a criminologist and professor in New York City. He is visited by the widow of a murdered man who wants Gideon to track down her husband's killers. She provides him with a computer disk containing a video of the president's assassination--a video that proves that the official version of the event has been doctored, perhaps by her husband, who was a special-effects genius. This work of "future history" is by the author the the best selling novel THE ALIENIST.

Caleb Carr ilustra en esta novela la vida de Frederick Townsend Ward, de quien un articulista del Los Angeles Times escribió: �Para hacerse una idea de quién fue Frederick Townsend Ward, hay que imag

Una introducción a los orígenes históricos del terrorismo internacional moderno encuadrando este fenómeno en la disciplina de la historia militar en vez de hacerlo en el de la ciencia política o la s

New York 1896.Un meurtrier auprès duquel Jack l'Eventreur fait piètre figure sème aux quatre coins du Lower East Side les cadavres d'adolescents atrocement mutilés sans provoquer la moindre réaction

'Marvellously entertaining as well as thought-provoking - the finest intellectual parlour-game around.' - Noel Malcolm, "Sunday Telegraph". "More What If?", the sequel to the acclaimed "What If?" examines history's most fascinating what-might have-beens. More of the world's leading historians, including Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K Rabb, Cecilia Holland and Caleb Carr postulate on what might so easily have been. Concentrating on the crucial and the seemingly insignificant, "What If? 2" is an entertaining and brilliantly provocative look at the way our world could easily have been. What if William hadn't conquered? What if the enigma code remained uncracked? And would this even matter if Lord Halifax had become Prime Minister rather than Churchill? This selection of alternative history is both provocative and stimulating and gives us a valuable insight into the way things could so easily have been. Praise for the "What If?" series include: "Anyone interested in...History in general will find it fascinating to read" - "Spectator". "Pure, almost illicit pleasure" - Andrew Roberts, "Sunday Telegraph". "A top-class bed-side read" - "Financial Times".