Caleb Carr - A sötétség angyala

Barely a year has passed since Laszlo Kreizler's first successful investigation. Manhattan has become even bigger, more modern, more exciting - and even more dangerous. One day, the police are alerted that the fourteen-month-old daughter of an employee of the Spanish embassy has been kidnapped. The crime could not have happened at a worse time, since the relationship between the United States and the Spanish Empire was permanently soured. It soon turns out that the little girl was not kidnapped for political purposes: she fell into the clutches of a woman who is believed to have already killed several babies. Stevie Taggert and Sarah Howard begin to investigate, joined by John Schuyler Moore, and they use all the available investigative tools of the time to bring the woman, whose skills are so diabolical, to justice that they have to turn to the reluctant Laszlo Kreizler for help. But it can easily happen that even the very determined district attorney and the all-seeing psychiatrist are outwitted by the culprit, who knows neither mercy nor mercy.