The Alienist

This week I began reading The Alienist, by Caleb Carr. It describes the search of a serial killer in 1896. So far it seems like a very well written, tough book, which poses a nice challenge. It's interested me so far, and it reminds me of Sherlock Holmes, in a way. It seems like a mystery always trying to be solved, but in another aspect, it always seems smoky, and dark. I am referring to the atmosphere's of the book and throughout Holmes it seems to be that he is always either thinking in a dark chair smoking a pipe or out in the night. In this book, the first murder that is a seen, of a hermaphrodite child prosititute, it is done in the darkness by a dark river under a tower.