1793: The Wolf and the Watchman
The latest Scandi sensation
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1793: The Wolf and the Watchman
Narrated by:
Caspar Rundegren, Clara Andersson, Matt Addis
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Narrated by:
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Caspar Rundegren
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Clara Andersson
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Matt Addis
About this listen
'Thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful' Fredrik Backman
The year is 1793, Stockholm. King Gustav of Sweden has been assassinated, years of foreign wars have emptied the treasuries, and the realm is governed by a self-interested elite, leaving its citizens to suffer. On the streets, malcontent and paranoia abound.
A body is found in the city's swamp by a watchman, Mickel Cardell, and the case is handed over to investigator Cecil Winge, who is dying of consumption. Together, Winge and Cardell become embroiled in a brutal world of guttersnipes and thieves, mercenaries and madams, and one death will expose a city rotten with corruption beneath its powdered and painted veneer.
The Wolf and the Watchman depicts the capacity for cruelty in the name of survival or greed - but also the capacity for love, friendship, and the desire for a better world.
(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critic Reviews
A remarkable debut novel
A gripping, shocking read
This gripping historical thriller surely announces the arrival of a fine new European talent. Vivid and absorbing
The latest Scandi sensation
Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist . . . Natt och Dag spares us nothing, detailing horror after horror in his unflinchingly muscular prose
Natt och Dag's description of the rattling, lung-shredding tubercular cough is truly hideous - a haunting portrait of physical disintegration that's not easy to forget
Swedish noir doesn't get much darker
A superbly detailed historical mystery
A well-depicted historical murder mystery filled with cruelty as well as warmth and humanity
A historical thriller that is unparalleled in suspense and literary quality. It's raw, beautiful, heartbreaking and extremely captivating until the very last page. The Wolf and the Watchman deserves a place among the classics of the genre
An unexpected masterpiece, a wild and unusual mix of genres that in one fell swoop succeeds in renewing the entire crime fiction genre
Brawny, bloody, intricate, enthralling - and the best historical thriller I've read in twenty years
This is a thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift to oneself
An impressive thriller - well paced, well structured and deeply unsettling . . . political scheming and psychological angst, grand theories on the state of man, a fiendish masterplan and a love story all in one
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