Caleb Carr’s 1990s crime novels. Season 2, “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness,” is set in 1897 New York City roughly a year after the events of Season 1 — in which Kreizler, secretary Sarah Howard (Dakota Fanning) and journalist John Moore (Luke Evans) teamed up to find a serial killer preying on young male prostitutes.Sarah has now opened her own private detective agency and once again joins Kreizler and Moore as they hunt down a ritualistic baby killer terrifying the city amidst the backdrop of racism, women’s rights, corruption and the brewing Spanish-American war.
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