ISBN-13: 9781501196782
The Alienist set in eighteenth-century Stockholm Brawny, bloody, intricate, enthrallingand the best historical thriller Ive read in twenty years.A.J. Finn, #1 bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowThrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful.Fredrik Backman, #1 bestselling author of A Man Called OveChilling and thought-provoking. Relentless, well-written, and nearly impossible to put down.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)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 Stockholms Southern Isle, now a rancid bog. Efforts to identify the bizarrely mutilated corpse are entrusted to incorruptible lawyer Cecil Winge, who enlists Cardells help to solve the case. But time is short Winges 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 farmers son who is lead 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 investigation peels back layer upon layer of the citys labyrinthine society. The rich and the poor, the pious and the fallen, the living and the deadall 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781501196782
The Alienist set in eighteenth-century Stockholm Brawny, bloody, intricate, enthrallingand the best historical thriller Ive read in twenty years.A.J. Finn, #1 bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowThrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful.Fredrik Backman, #1 bestselling author of A Man Called OveChilling and thought-provoking. Relentless, well-written, and nearly impossible to put down.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)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 Stockholms Southern Isle, now a rancid bog. Efforts to identify the bizarrely mutilated corpse are entrusted to incorruptible lawyer Cecil Winge, who enlists Cardells help to solve the case. But time is short Winges 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 farmers son who is lead 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 investigation peels back layer upon layer of the citys labyrinthine society. The rich and the poor, the pious and the fallen, the living and the deadall 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.
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