The Alienist

I had never heard of this book until I saw the series on TNT. I was not all that impressed with the TV series but I was intrigued enough to look into the book. Where I saw the TV series as salacious and gaudie, focusing on the nature of the victims, that being Rent Boys and teenage cross dressing prostitutes, the novel focuses more on how these victims were the most vulnerable and would have been considered not worth the effort to work on finding the killer. I found the book to be far superior in both the quality of the story and the style of the narrative.