The angel of darkness - caleb carr

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - THE BOOK BEHIND SEASON TWO OF TNTS THE ALIENIST - Dr.

Laszlo Kreizler returns in a whopping thriller (The Washington Post) that showcases Caleb Carr at his strongest (USA Today).

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 Saras 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.

Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low.

Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York.

Praise for The Angel of Darkness A ripping yarn told with verve, intensity, and a feel for historical detail .

Once again we are careening around the gaslighted New York that Carr knows, and depicts, so well.

--The New York Times Book Review Gripping .

Carr is at his strongest, exploring the dark underside of the human psyche and ferreting out the terrors and tragedies that drive men--and women--to kill.

In Libby Hatch, Carr has created a villain whose cunning is nearly equal to his detectives crime-solving prowess.

The mystery is plotted with military precision.

--USA Today A] whopping thriller .

Carr keeps us racing along with him to the very end.

--The Washington Post Book World Fascinating .

In a brilliant bit of historical casting, Clarence Darrow, a rising courtroom wizard from Chicago, turns up to defend the villain at a tense upstate New York murder trial.

--Time.