The Wolf And The Watchman: A Novel

  • Author: Niklas Natt och Dag
  • Narrator: Casper Rundegren
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 13:40:22
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Synopsis

“It’s early to be pegging the year’s best books, but The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dag’s stunning debut, is sure to be one of them.” —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

“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

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 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 led 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.

Chapters

  • 001 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Open

    Duration: 38s
  • 002 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Part1

    Duration: 02min
  • 003 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch01

    Duration: 11min
  • 004 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch02

    Duration: 20min
  • 005 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch03

    Duration: 24min
  • 006 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch04

    Duration: 12min
  • 007 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch05

    Duration: 12min
  • 008 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch06

    Duration: 13min
  • 009 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch07

    Duration: 10min
  • 010 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch08

    Duration: 13min
  • 011 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch09

    Duration: 16min
  • 012 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch10

    Duration: 12min
  • 013 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch11

    Duration: 17min
  • 014 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch12

    Duration: 12min
  • 015 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch13

    Duration: 09min
  • 016 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch14

    Duration: 09min
  • 017 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch15

    Duration: 12min
  • 018 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch16

    Duration: 22min
  • 019 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Part2 Ch17

    Duration: 15min
  • 020 TheWolfAndTheWatchman Ch18

    Duration: 08min
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