The Angel of Darkness [Alienist #2] by Caleb Carr [FIRST EDITION] 1997

The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr [DR. LASZLO KREIZLER #2]

FIRST EDITION • SECOND PRINTING [1997] RANDOM HOUSE NY

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   

Dust jacket has mild shelf wear.   Book reads perfectly with some light wear to boards.  

 Caleb Carr's acclaimed sequel to The Alienist...

June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime—have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case.

But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara’s aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children.