The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793: A Novel

The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793: A Novel

â€œItâ€™s early to be pegging the yearâ€™s best books, but The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dagâ€™s stunning debut, is sure to be one of them.â€ â€”The Washington Post

â€œWhat's better than an ornate period piece with style to spare? One that includes a murder mystery. Oh, and boy is it a riveting mystery....A bit of Patrick SÃ¼skindâ€™s Perfume and a bit of Sherlock Holmes, this wolf has some bite to it.â€ â€”NPR

â€œReads like a season of â€˜True Detectiveâ€™...anchored by a powerful sense of place and a memorable cast of characters....You wonâ€™t soon forget it.â€ â€”USA TODAY

Named Best Debut Novel of 2017 by the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers

One morning in the autumn of 1793, watchman Mikel Cardell is awakened from his drunken slumber with reports of a body seen floating in the Larder, once a pristine lake on Stockholmâ€™s Southern Isle, now a rancid bog. Efforts to identify the bizarrely mutilated corpse are entrusted to incorruptible lawyer Cecil Winge, who enlists Cardellâ€™s help to solve the case. But time is short: Wingeâ€™s health is failing, the monarchy is in shambles, and whispered conspiracies and paranoia abound.

Winge and Cardell become immersed in a brutal world of guttersnipes and thieves, mercenaries and madams. From a farmerâ€™s son who is led down a treacherous path when he seeks his fortune in the capital to an orphan girl consigned to the workhouse by a pitiless parish priest, their gruesome investigation peels back layer upon layer of the cityâ€™s labyrinthine society. The rich and the poor, the pious and the fallen, the living and the deadâ€”all collide and interconnect with the body pulled from the lake.

Breathtakingly bold and intricately constructed, The Wolf and the Watchman brings to life the crowded streets, gilded palaces, and dark corners of late-eighteenth-century Stockholm, offering a startling vision of the crimes we commit in the name of justice, and the sacrifices we make in order to survive.
Country USA
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-03-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-03-05
Format	Kindle eBook

The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793: A Novel

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