Helpful Score: 5
A fascinating and well researched historical novel that uses Freud's only visit to America as the catalyst for a murder mystery. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing right to the end who did it and how. Fans of psychology and fans of mysteries will find enough appealing aspects to keep them riveted from page to page.
Helpful Score: 3
An exciting thriller that keeps you gripped til the very end with it's clever twists and turns. Not too focused on Freud that its offputting. Clever and skilfull.
Helpful Score: 2
A page turner of a murder mystery with the most unusual of "detectives". Set in NYC in 1909 it takes place when Freud visited NYC in 1909 with his disciple Carl Jung. What happened led to Freud vowing never to return to the U.S. and decribing Americans as savages!
Helpful Score: 1
This book was fantastic.
It is a very well-researched historical thriller. It perfectly balanced the facts surrounding Freud and Jung's visit to America with the fiction of a complex and mysterious murder.
This book kept me on my toes the entire time and left me guessing until the very end. Rubenfeld captured the essence of turn-of-the-century New York, the sensation and skepticism surrounding Freud's revolutionary theories, and the spirit of the detectives and victims as they wade through layers of truth and deception.
Freud and his theories are present but they are not overwhelming. This book was in the same family as Caleb Carr's 'The Alienist' and managed to pull off a really great story in a third of the pages. I consider this book to be a delightful must-read for fans of murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and historical fiction. It is an all-around enjoyable reading experience.
It is a very well-researched historical thriller. It perfectly balanced the facts surrounding Freud and Jung's visit to America with the fiction of a complex and mysterious murder.
This book kept me on my toes the entire time and left me guessing until the very end. Rubenfeld captured the essence of turn-of-the-century New York, the sensation and skepticism surrounding Freud's revolutionary theories, and the spirit of the detectives and victims as they wade through layers of truth and deception.
Freud and his theories are present but they are not overwhelming. This book was in the same family as Caleb Carr's 'The Alienist' and managed to pull off a really great story in a third of the pages. I consider this book to be a delightful must-read for fans of murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and historical fiction. It is an all-around enjoyable reading experience.
