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1795: The Order of the Furies

Jean Mickel Cardell (Book 3)

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'Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist' Guardian

It is 1795 and evil lurks in the winding alleys of Stockholm. Tycho Ceton prowls the city, willing to do anything to survive and reclaim the honour he has lost. No one knows what he is planning next but Emil Winge, haunted by the ghosts of his past, is determined to stop him. Meanwhile, Jean Mickel Cardell is preoccupied with his own search for Anna Stina Knapp. She may have in her possession a letter which could have devastating consequences in the wrong hands.

All the while, hell looms inexorably . . .

In 1795: The Order of the Furies, the third instalment of Niklas Natt och Dag's historical noir trilogy, we are plunged once again into the bustling world of late eighteenth-century Stockholm. The city is teetering on a precipice, with evil shaking its core, but can love and friendship prevail?
Translated by Ian Giles

Critics Review

This dark Stockholm trilogy concludes with more sludge, squalor and connoisseurs of depravity
Strong Words
Praise for the series ---
A remarkable debut novel
Sunday Times
A gripping, shocking read
The Times
This gripping historical thriller surely announces the arrival of a fine new European talent. Vivid and absorbing
Observer
The latest Scandi sensation
Sunday Times
Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist . . . Natt och Dag spares us nothing, detailing horror after horror in his unflinchingly muscular prose
Guardian
Natt och Dag's description of the rattling, lung-shredding tubercular cough is truly hideous - a haunting portrait of physical disintegration that's not easy to forget
Evening Standard
Swedish noir doesn't get much darker
Herald
A superbly detailed historical mystery
Irish Times
This is a thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift to oneself
Fredrik Backman
A well-depicted historical murder mystery filled with cruelty as well as warmth and humanity
Best Debut, Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2017
A historical thriller that is unparalleled in suspense and literary quality. It's raw, beautiful, heartbreaking and extremely captivating until the very last page. The Wolf and the Watchman deserves a place among the classics of the genre
Erik Axl Sund, author of THE CROW GIRL
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, prize-winning and Swedish #1 bestselling author of the Sam Berger series
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
An impressive thriller - well paced, well structured and deeply unsettling . . . political scheming and psychological angst, grand theories on the state of man, a fiendish masterplan and a love story all in one
TLS
Author Niklas Natt och Dag
Narrator Matt Addis
Series Jean Mickel Cardell
Duration 14 hours and 47 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529304725
Format Audiobook
Publisher John Murray Press
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Historical fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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