'The Alienist' 8-part series to air on TNT

NEW YORK, May 13 (UPI) -- An eight-part series based on Caleb Carr's best-selling psychological thriller The Alienist is in the works at TNT.

Cary Fukunaga of True Detective fame is helming the project, while Hossein Amini is penning the collaboration between TNT Original Productions and Paramount Television.

"After a series of haunting and gruesome murders, psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper reporter John Moore and police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt come together employing emerging disciplines of psychology and early crime investigation techniques to track down one of New York City's first serial killers," the cable network said in a press release.

No casting has been announced yet for the limited series, which is set in New York's Gilded Age of the late 19th century.