#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 from The Wolf and the Watchman. 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.
