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This is a great historical mystery-thriller set in 1890ies New York. Dr. Laszlo Kreisler is at the cutting edge of psychology, positing the revolutionary idea that childhood experiences shape personality and morality of adults. There are many in America who see this as anti-family on the basis that we are now blaming the parents for someone’s actions, not themselves. This of course is rubbish, but it seems that any new idea can be seen as the end of morality and family at any time in history, pr
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I really enjoyed this crime story about an early attempt to use profiling to find a serial killer. Both the way the group cooperated and reasoned themselves to the solution, and the atmosphere in New York in the mid-1890s, was wonderful. The book was a bit longer than I would have liked, the story dragged a bit at the end, but I mostly loved it.
Read it a second time and love it as much as i did the first time. I can only imagine the amount of research that goes into writing something like that. This book has everything I love: a glimpse into a history of Manhattan, a glimpse into what or rather who NYPD officers were at that time, the beginnings of criminal psychology, the first female employed by the NYPD.
Jan 18, 2010
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