Annal:1995 Anthony Award for Best First Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Anthony Award in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1995 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 1994 Stoker–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.45
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or “alienist.” On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan’s infamous brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler’s…
