It's not only strangers you can't trust! Angel, the perfect childminder, has preyed on children for years. But everything starts to slip out of control when Angel steals her latest victim. Having massacred innumerable innocents, she now wants someone to know about it. Set in the 1990s, this is the first entry in the Roth trilogy that continued with The Judgement of Strangers and The Office of the Dead. "Piles on the menace."—Kirkus Reviews