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The wolf and the watchman : a novel / Niklas Natt och Dag ; English language translation by Ebba Segerberg.
In this breathtakingly bold, intricately constructed novel set in 18th century Stockholm, a dying man searches among the city's teeming streets, dark corners, and intriguing inhabitants to unmask a ruthless murderer.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501196775
- ISBN: 1501196774
- Physical Description: 373 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Map on endpapers. |
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| Subject: | Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Stockholm (Sweden) > History > 18th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC NATT (Text) | 30886001065297 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
When a mutilated corpse is discovered in a local swamp, watchman Mikel Cardell and lawyer Cecil Winge comb the underworld of eighteenth-century Stockholm to unmask a murderer before a young workhouse laborer becomes the next victim. - Baker & Taylor
A U.S. release of an award-winning first novel finds a disabled ex-soldier and a lawyer with tuberculosis combing the underworld of 18th-century Stockholm to unmask a ruthless murderer before a young workhouse laborer becomes a next victim. 100,000 first printing. - Simon and Schuster
ONE OF NPR's BEST BOOKS OF 2019
'It's early to be pegging the year's best books, but The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dag's stunning debut, is sure to be one of them.' 'the Washington Post
'What'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 Süskind's Perfume and a bit of Sherlock Holmes, this wolf has some bite to it.' 'NPR
'reads like a season of 'true Detective'...anchored by a powerful sense of place and a memorable cast of characters....You won't soon forget it.' '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 Stockholm's Southern Isle, now a rancid bog. Efforts to identify the bizarrely mutilated corpse are entrusted to incorruptible lawyer Cecil Winge, who enlists Cardell's help to solve the case. But time is short: Winge'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 farmer'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 city's labyrinthine society. The rich and the poor, the pious and the fallen, the living and the dead'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.
