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I selected The Alienist as my first read because I heard it was being developed as a TV series on TNT and the headliners are actors I love: Luke Evans, Daniel Bruehl, and Dakota Fanning). I was in the grocery store on Sunday morning to buy prosecco for New Year’s Eve, but had to kill thirty minutes before they could sell it to me. I had the good fortune of finding it i...