M. Benesh’s Reviews > The Alienist > Status Update

The author seems to have just picked a more colorful/Sherlock-in-London time period in the US (at least, a time period perceived by the author as such) and plopped a modern story into that setting. While I enjoy the very rough criminal psychology used by the psychologist/alienist, it just seems extremely out of place in a time period when psychoanalysis had barely been born.