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"A tantalizing mystery, a foreboding, claustrophobic sense of place and a pair of unforgettable investigators." (Newsday)“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, international bestselling author)“For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice...a stunning debut...Like Umberto Eco’s novel [The Name of the Rose, this] is a cerebral, immersive page-turner [with] a moral heft reminiscent of works by Graham Greene...Plenty of twists to satisfy thrill-starved readers.” (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)“In his debut novel, Natt och Dag examines the effects of a brutal murder on those who investigate it—and explores the psychological causes for the crime...Chilling and thought-provoking. Relentless, well-written, and nearly impossible to put down.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))"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)"A remarkable debut novel." (The Sunday Times)“[A] masterly first novel...The book’s structure, which includes flashbacks and multiple perspectives, will remind many of Iain Pear’s An Instance of the Fingerpost, and Natt och Dag uses this structure to heighten suspense and deepen characterization. The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers named this the bets debut novel of 2017, and U.S. readers will be likewise impressed.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))"A standout. The characterization is excellent, as is the evocation of eighteenth-century Stockholm, an uncommon historical setting that provides a vibrant backdrop for this unusual mystery. Natt och Dag's side-plots dovetail neatly, his pacing is skillful, and he explores with aplomb his novel's main theme, Homo homini lupus est —Man is wolf to man.” (Booklist)
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About the Author
Niklas Natt och Dag (“Night and Day”) is a member of the oldest surviving noble family in Sweden. He enjoys playing the guitar, mandolin, violin, and the Japanese bamboo flute. The Wolf and the Watchman, his first novel, was named the Best Debut of 2017 by the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers and is being published in thirty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and their two sons.
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Product details
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Atria Books (March 5, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1501196774
ISBN-13: 978-1501196775
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
59 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#6,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Historical fiction isn’t usually my cuppa, but this is one hecka gripping and compelling murder mystery set in late 18th century Stockholm, and, on top of that, it is literary and gruesome simultaneously (not for the faint of heart). Character-driven, plot based, well-paced, and mordantly comic at intervals, this novel will surely hit my best of 2019 reads. I don’t find the violence and gory graphics gratuitous, but that’s for the individual reader to decide. He knows just the perfect time to be tender, too, without ever making it schmaltzy.After the failed Swedish war against the Russians and the assassination of King Gustav III, the city and state are teetering on disaster, as disheveled and crippled as many of the returning soldiers. One of them, Mickel Cardell, suffers from PTSD (not known then), and works as a watchman. He lost an arm in the war, and licks his mental/emotional wounds by daily drunken bouts. Cardell is called to the foul-smelling, polluted Larder, where he retrieves a mutilated corpse from the water. The body’s limbs are missing, the eyes are plucked out, the lips and teeth are gone, and the tongue is removed. The body’s enduring feature is a thick mane of long blonde hair.Mickel intersects with 30-ish Cecil Winge, a consumptive lawyer who is winding down his successful assistance to the honest but sadly, outgoing head of police. Cecil is asked one more time to help the police, to solve this heinous crime. Cecil is a bit of a watch man himself, taking apart and putting together his watch and telling time by the church bells. His self-destructive flaw isn’t drinking like Mickel. It’s his fierce belief that everything can be solved by strength of mind, to the point of too much pride in his broken marriage. He teams up with Mickel and together they make the oddest couple of buddy crime fighters you’ll ever see.To add just a pinch of hyperbole, the artistic design of this novel brought me to my knees. Niklas Natt och Dag writes like visual directors who shoot each scene like a dynamic painting. He’s a genius at placing the reader in his story, a (re)constructed world of Sweden 1793, because the novel is so visually complete in historical detail and proportioned in its internal action and surroundings. Not Hollywood cinema, but rather like an indie artistic one, united to his rich imagination. Imagery is complex, layered, and nuanced. If you’ve ever seen The Man in the High Castle or Joe Versus the Volcano (two movies which are nothing alike or similar to this book), then you may have noticed that you could watch these on mute, ignore the plot or dialogue, and just watch how every last scene is balanced and worthy of a painting. A silent and breathtaking story through images (on film) or, in the case of Natt och Dag—through words, sentences, and paragraphs. That’s how this author writes. Attention to detail, and plenty to chew on as you chew on this scenery-- but never too much, because he knows how to place an object, person, place, and moment.THE WOLF AND THE WATCHMAN is a portrait with each moment guided with the beauty of Natt och Dag’s observant eye. He sees in all directions so the perspective is expansive and yet grounded in reality. And a harsh reality it is. Gentle humanity is evident, and pops in those moments that they occur—viscerally and sensually. Blink and you’ll miss it. The theme is in the title, “Are we wolves to one another, always on the lookout for the least sign of weakness before we choose our moment of attack?†But there's more to the theme, too--friendship, love, the class system, and human suffering. It's a book I'll read again, for the muscular prose, entrancing images, and robust achievement by the author.
In 1793 Stockholm, one character says that Hell would be a welcome relief to the misery of life. All the children are starving to death. All the women are forced into prostitution in order to get enough food to live until they die of syphilis. Many of the few men who survived pointless wars are wounded. Thousands die of some plague or other every few years. All the watchmen (police) are corrupt. All government officials and churchmen are corrupt and hypocritical. All the water is polluted with excrement. Everywhere there is excrement in piles and the air reeks even in winter. Why the population of Stockholm is not declining rapidly is never explained.An honest watchman, the one-handed Mickel Cardell, is guilted into entering the sewage infested harbor water to recover a body. The body is an unidentified human with no eyes, tongue, or limbs. Cecil Winge, an honest police detective dyeing of TB, wants to find the murderer before he dies and gets Cardell to help him. They discover that the murderer has inflicted far more pain on the victim than “mere†dismemberment.As if this is not depressing enough, hundreds of pages are devoted to the miseries of minor characters before revealing a clue or two about the murderer. One of these side stories introduces a character who gets more pleasure from crippling or killing young women than he does from sex, and no one does anything about him.Enough is enough. The more a reader reads of this book, the more damaged his humanity will become and the more depressed he will get.
characters and a plot that encompasses multiple murders, petty theft, false accusations, torture, stolen identity, and fatal illness combine to create a panoramic view of 18th century Stockholm and the cost of love.
One of the best of its type I have read. A few reviewers have complained about how dark it is...and they're right. But your weird Uncle Jimmy is a misanthrope with a dark view of the human species, so that didn't bother me a whit.The writer does a great job of conjuring the filth and misery of late 18th century Stockholm. At first the novel seems like three unrelated novellas then all is brought brilliantly together for the finale. Oddly, for such a dark book, it has a happy ending of sorts, at least for one character.I could go on and on about plot points, but I'll leave that for you, the reader to discover. If you like crime novels, especially of the massively popular Scandinavian variety, this one is not to be missed!
A gripping and terrifying suspense thriller. It kept me awake at night - sometimes reading it. sometimes because I was afraid to turn the page. But it is worth every moment. I would love to see a whole weird series of these not to mention a film. Yet that's hard to imagine as the central truth to the book is rather tender and subtle and I can't imagine Hollywood resisting the urge to bleach that aspect out. But as a book its a fine and enjoyable read!
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