Used book – A Stranger is Watching, Mary Higgins Clark

As illuminated New York prepares to celebrate Christmas, a woman abandons her child in front of a church and disappears into the night. Inside, a small-time crook waits for the last priest to leave before seizing a precious religious artifact, until the arrival of the police forces him to retreat. As for the baby, no one will know he was there...

It will take the greatest of coincidences for Willy and Alvirah Meehan, an ace detective duo, to uncover the trail of this incredible case years later. An eventful investigation begins and, for the countless readers of The Cradle Will Fall (Grand Prix de littérature policière 1980), one of those suspense novels that only Mary Higgins Clark knows how to write.