**'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A.J. Finn** **'****A thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift to oneself' Fredrik Backman** The year is 1793, Stockholm. King Gustav of Sweden has been assassinated, years of foreign wars ha
The Wolf and the Watchman
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- Book ID
- 110276900
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781501196775
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β¦ Synopsis
"The Alienist set in eighteenth-century Stockholm: Brawny, bloody, intricate, enthralling--and the best historical thriller I've read in twenty years." --A.J. Finn, #1 bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
"Thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful." --Fredrik Backman, #1 bestselling author of A Man Called Ove
**"**Chilling and thought-provoking. Relentless, well-written, and nearly impossible to put down." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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...
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