(2016) Revisit to this author for the first time in 14 years. Something about the fact that he had a new book made me want to try him again. Not disappointed as the story of 2 partners who provide forensic consulting and teach classes online unfolds. They are skeptics and debunkers of CSI type of investigations as they think the science has been perverted. Here they get involved in cases of deaths of ?throwaway children? which are all considered suicides but are symptoms of a much deeper crime of trafficking in kids abandoned by parents and the system. Very good.KIRKUS REVIEWCarr (The Legend of Broken, 2012, etc.) returns with a curious whodunit that weds leisurely 19th-century storytelling with 21st-century unpleasantness.It's not a demand for the Big Apple to give up to the Wicked Witch. Instead, the title of Carr's new novel, full of echoes of and allusions to its predecessors, is also the name of an upstate town where NYPD psychologist Trajan Jones finds himself in exile, having crossed the brass one time too many. Now, with partner Mike Li, he's teaching criminology online, a fact that lands him new connections�including a student who's caught up in a whole mess of dark secrets surrounding the forest-shrouded burg. Complicating the story are the local gendarmes, a young blind woman who¥this being a genre novel, after all¥allows a good long glimpse at what's underneath her robe, and¥this being a Carr novel, full of quirks all its own¥a pet cheetah. Bringing Up Baby it's not, though a sordid twist involving what Carr euphemistically calls ?illegal adoption? figures. It takes a good long while for the plot to unfold and the bad guys to emerge, as is the way of most police investigations¥and of Carr's Trollope-an style, long on atmospherics and short of car chases and their moral equivalents. And, as always, Carr takes an encyclopedic, parenthetical, village-explainer approach that some readers, used to swifter narratives, might not wholly endorse; along the way, we learn, for example, of the tensions between medical examiners and coroners, who are not the same thing, and why Albany is the capital of New York, for better or worse. Yet Carr's story poses an utterly modern question: for a career-minded politico, which is worse, a child-neglect scandal or a serial killer on the loose? We get to see both at work, including some nicely nasty mayhem: ?He'd been hit in the center of the back, the shot shattering his spine and, I found when I turned him over, taking away part of his chest.?Carr's many fans will find this well worth the wait.Pub Date: Aug. 23rd, 2016ISBN: 978-0-679-45569-1Page count: 624ppPublisher: Random HouseReview Posted Online: May 30th, 2016Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15th, 2016

Too long. Wrote this like he was giving direction to film crews. Good story but ( )

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Bon-apptread with the Eight-Course Meal that is Surrender, New York by Caleb Carr

After reading a review by Michael Connelly as he raves in his review of Surrender, New York in the New York Times Book Review, I had to listen and take my time to enjoy this book. I even took a day to let it all digest before sitting down to write my review. Caleb Carr, once again, took me on a journey of enlightenment told through an entertaining story peppered with endearing and real characters. I laughed. I cried. I learned and most of all I enjoyed this. For being a 624-page book, this went really quick which speaks to Carr’s story telling. He likes educate his audience while he entertains them. How many of us had ever heard of the term “Alienist” before he wrote the bestseller, The Alienist? I know I hadn’t. in this novel he is teaching us again. This time we are learning about the plight of “throwaway children” and the unreliability of forensic science we have been brainwashed with for all these years. Just like the Alienist we are treated with beautiful pictures of Upstate New York making the reader want to go sightseeing. I noticed many complained about the writing style but given the fact that he is inspired by 19th-century writers it is to be expected. If you have been fallowing my reviews then you know I talk about devouring books in days. This one I am going to eat my words on. Please take your time and treat it like a five-star eight course meal and enjoy every page. I want to hear all about your thoughts on Marcianna in this story. She is a gem and adds tenderness to an otherwise heartbreaking tale.
A wise person once said you get out of something what you put into it. Surrender, New York demands time and full attention. Don’t let that discourage you--it’s worth it!

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Wonderful characters and story telling. I hope that there will be more tales of these folks! ( )