Niklas Natt Och Dag
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Stockholm, 1794. De retour après un an d'exil sur une île oubliée des dieux, le jeune noble Erik Tre Rosor retrouve son domaine et sa fiancée. Las, sa nuit de noces tourne au massacre. Mais que vaut la mort d'une fille de fermier dans cette société aristocratique et corrompue ? Pour s'intéresser à cette affaire, un seul homme : l'enquêteur manchot Jean Michael Cardell. D'auberges mal famées en asiles de fous, de ruelles nauséabondes en sociétés secrètes, c'est -une nouvelle plongée dans les bas-fonds qui attend Cardell et ses alliés. Parce qu'il y a, plus que jamais, quelque chose de pourri au royaume de Suède...
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1793. Alors qu'en France, l'ouragan révolutionnaire a semé la Terreur dans les palais dorés, à Stockholm ce n'est pas une brise, ni même un courant d'air, qui traverse les taudis rongés de vermine et les maisons closes où agonise la misère la plus crasse...
À la surface du lac Fatburen, une charogne flotte. Un corps mutilé signe d'une lente et terrible torture. Mais qui s'en soucie ? Qui sinon deux justes, Cardell, le vétéran manchot, et Winge, le juriste tuberculeux, seuls déterminés à rendre la justice. Ils ne seront pas trop de deux pour élucider ce meurtre abominable qui indiffère les autorités et le commun des mortels mais qui leur est à tous deux insupportable - l'honneur des oubliés...
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'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A.J. Finn ' A thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift to oneself' 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. ' An unexpected masterpiece, a wild and unusual mix of genres that in one fell swoop succeeds in renewing the entire crime fiction genre' Arne Dahl
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#1 bestseller in Sweden with over 1.5 million copies sold ''Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist'' Guardian The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be just at home in the madhouse across the road. Ridden with guilt, he spends his nights writing down memories of his lost love who died on their wedding night. Her mother also mourns her and when no one listens to her suspicions, she begs the aid of the only person who will listen: Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. Cecil Winge is six months in the ground but when his younger brother Emil seeks out the watchman to retrieve his brother''s missing pocket watch, Cardell enlists his help to discover what really happened at Three Roses'' estate that night. But, unlike his dead brother, the younger Winge is an enigma, and Cardell soon realises that he may be more hindrance than help. And when they discover that a mysterious slave trader has been running Three Roses'' affairs, it is a race against time to discover the truth before it''s too late. In 1794 , the second installment of Niklas Natt och Dag''s historical noir trilogy, we are reunited with Mickel Cardell, Anna Stina Knapp, and the bustling world of late eighteenth century Stockholm. The city is about to see its darkest days yet as veneers crack and the splendour of old gives way to what is hiding in the city''s nooks and crannies.
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B>Segunda entrega de una trilogía que ha revolucionado el thriller histórico y promete convertirse en un fenómeno mundial./b>La segunda y esperada entrega de la trilogía con tintes noir de Niklas Natt och Dag nos reúne de nuevo con Jean Michael Cardell y Anna Stina Knapp en la bulliciosa Estocolmo de finales del siglo XVIII, una ciudad absolutamente marcada por los cruentos torbellinos de la Revolución francesa. Aunque el caso del cuerpo mutilado había dotado de un cierto sentido a su vida durante el año anterior, Mickel Cardell se encuentra otra vez en un estado de absoluta postración, de la que solo saldrá gracias a un inesperado giro del destino. La intrincada investigación del asesinato a sangre fría de una joven en su noche de bodas arrastrará a Cardell a los turbulentos abismos de una sociedad sueca más corrupta que nunca.br>br>b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION/b>br>br>b>"Second installment in a trilogy that has revolutionized the historical thriller and promises to become a worldwide phenomenon./b>br> br> The long-awaited second installment of Niklas Natt Och Dag''s noir-tinged trilogy brings us together again with Jean Michael Cardell and Anna Stina Knapp in bustling Stockholm at the end of the 18th century, a city entirely marked by the bloody whirlwinds of the French Revolution. Although the case of the mutilated body had given a certain meaning to his life during the previous year, Mickel Cardell is once again in a state of absolute prostration, from which he will only emerge thanks to an unexpected twist of fate. The intricate investigation into the cold-blooded murder of a young woman on her wedding night will drag Cardell into the turbulent depths of a Swedish society more corrupt than ever. "br> br>br>
