As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past.

'Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low.Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. 'In Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years.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. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. Kreizler and his friends - high-living crime reporter John 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.

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.

The angel of darkness by caleb carr