The Alienist set in eighteenth-century Stockholm: Brawny, bloody, intricate, enthralling--and the best historical thriller I\'ve read in twenty years.
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..
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.
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 investigation peels back layer upon layer of the city\'s labyrinthine society.
Winge and Cardell become immersed in a brutal world of guttersnipes and thieves, mercenaries and madams.
But time is short: Winge\'s health is failing, the monarchy is in shambles, and whispered conspiracies and paranoia abound.
Efforts to identify the bizarrely mutilated corpse are entrusted to incorruptible lawyer Cecil Winge, who enlists Cardell\'s help to solve the case. -- 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 Stockholm\'s Southern Isle, now a rancid bog.
Relentless, well-written, and nearly impossible to put down. --Fredrik Backman, #1 bestselling author of A Man Called Ove Chilling and thought-provoking.
Finn, #1 bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful. --A.
J.
The Alienist set in eighteenth-century Stockholm: Brawny, bloody, intricate, enthralling--and the best historical thriller I\'ve read in twenty years
