The Angel of Darkness (Audible Audio Edition) Caleb Carr George Guidall Simon Schuster Audio Books
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In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
It is 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 friends - high-living crime reporter 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 crime - have 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 Sara's aid, the team reunites to help her 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. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel Of Darkness is another tour de force from Caleb Carr, a novel of modern evil in old New York.The Angel of Darkness (Audible Audio Edition) Caleb Carr George Guidall Simon Schuster Audio Books
Great continuation of some of the characters from the Alienist but a stand alone story. I always tell people you can pick up "Angel of Darkness" without the background history from the Alienist. Love the suspenseful writing style and steady pace, very hard to put the book down. As always love the details and descriptions the author,is so great at and makes the reader feel as a part of the environment. Love the psychological aspects of the story and how modern criminologist had there start in the field.Product details
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The Angel of Darkness (Audible Audio Edition) Caleb Carr George Guidall Simon Schuster Audio Books Reviews
We are not so far removed as a society from either the setting or original publication, from the biases and casual violence that Carr presents in the Kreizler novels. Re-reading old favorites through the lens of experience, proves that. I may be a very different reader than I was 15 or 20 years ago, but the world in 2016 is just as bellicose, just as charged with racial, class, and gender bias, as it was then, or in the 1897 Caleb Carr presents. Carr's style in Angel of Darkness, suffers from overplaying the streetwise voice of his narrator, but the narrator's point of view may be even more valuable than that of John Schuyler Moore in The Alienist, because Stevie was not shielded from the vagaries of the ways in which society utterly fails children.The novel's mystery, that of the complex, contradictory, and terrifyingly murderous Libby Hatch, even as Carr surrounds her with other feminine archetypes like Kat Devlin, Cecelia Beaux, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sara Howard's own illustrious client (yes, I went there,) is by far the most intriguing and frustrating antagonist. The investigation holds up after almost 2 decades, and is a rollicking tale, but I would rather have seen more character interaction and fewer descriptions of the food eaten by them. All in all, Carr poses a question we still struggle with in the 21st century What destruction do the demands for the performance of and conformity to strictly enforced gender roles and presentation wreak on women? As I did when I first picked up Angel of Darkness years ago, I wonder if the tale and the reader wouldn't have benefited from Sara Howard's voice being just a bit louder here. The novel remains a favorite, and a very solid read, if you are at all interested in what the historic process of investigation and forensics might have looked like, while enjoying a narrative that doesn't shy away from making the reader uncomfortable about their own fallacies.
In my recent nostalgic look back at books I’ve read and enjoyed from a few decades ago after re-reading Caleb Carr’s “The Alienist” decided to also read his sequel to that story, “The Angel of Darkness”. In it Carr reunites his team of memorable characters from “The Alienist”; Dr. Laszlo Kreizler a psychiatrist (or “alienist” in turn of the last century parlance), newspaperman John Schulyer Moore, former NYPD secretary, pistol-packing Sara Howard, and Kreisler’s ward former street ruffian Stevie “The Stevepipe” Taggart, ably assisted by NYPD detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson .
Set in old time New York City Mr. Carr captures the period nicely and the setting is as much of a character as any of the people we encounter. Told from Stevie’s perspective as if told in a memoir we find Kreizler in a bit of a funk since a child under his care at his institute committed suicide and he’s under investigation. Banned from his workplace until things are sorted out the good doctor needs a diversion and a child abduction from the family of a Spanish diplomat serves the purpose. Matters become complicated quickly and soon our investigators find themselves on the trail of a sinister woman serial killer of small children (including her own).
Carr is an excellent writer but unfortunately this novel moves at a glacial pace and the level of suspense never approaches what readers experienced in “The Alienist”. The plot slows down even more so when the team takes a road trip to upstate New York to Ballston Spa and Saratoga to investigate the background of their suspected murderess, Libby Hatch (AKA Elspeth Hunter among others). Things move very slowly at this point until eventually Kreizler & Co. assemble enough evidence (some of it unethically manufactured) to see Hatch arrested and put on trial for the murder of her two young sons years earlier. There’s a fairly long, boring trial that’s only enlivened by the appearance of none other than famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow and his court room theatrics. Things proceed badly for the good guys but when some last minute evidence promises to put our killer behind bars she stages a daring and deadly escape. The pace then picks up as our heroes relentless track Hatch down ending with a climactic rooftop confrontation (just like in “The Alienist”) and justice is finally served. The reappearance of Kreizler’s of friend former NYPD Police Commissioner turned Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt is a welcome event but I wish Carr contrived to bring TR on board sooner than later.
It took me some time to get through “The Angel of Darkness” and I remember that it was a bit of a slog when I read it back in the 90’s too. These are solid characters placed in a fascinating historical period and despite the pacing problems in this book it’s surprising that Mr. Carr chose not to bring them back for a third adventure. Perhaps the recent adaptation of “The Alienist” by TNT into a series might motivate him to do just that.
I didn't realize the length of this book, but decided to read it since it was book 2 of Caleb Carr's story regarding Dr. Lazlo Kreizler, the Alienist. I found it interesting that it was written in the first person, but by one of the characters in the first book, which gave a totally different perspective on how he viewed all the other characters and how close he had become to the good Doctor. Although it was an easy read and an extremely interesting story, what I found distracting were all the typographical errors throughout the book. This shouldn't be. When I saw the first one, I thought, okay, this is a very long story, so someone missed this typo. But as the story progressed, there were more and more. Each time I came across one, my flow of reading stopped and I found it to be a distraction. Maybe the next print run this can be corrected.
All in all, the story was interesting, the main characters from the first book were still a "team" and familiar names were introduced which almost made this believable.
Great continuation of some of the characters from the Alienist but a stand alone story. I always tell people you can pick up "Angel of Darkness" without the background history from the Alienist. Love the suspenseful writing style and steady pace, very hard to put the book down. As always love the details and descriptions the author,is so great at and makes the reader feel as a part of the environment. Love the psychological aspects of the story and how modern criminologist had there start in the field.
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