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Atria Books
March 2019
On Sale: March 5, 2019
384 pages
ISBN: 1501196774
EAN: 9781501196775
Kindle: B07GNT9TWM
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Mystery Historical | Historical
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 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 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.
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