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""Game of Thrones without dragons."" --Gefle Dagblad (Sweden) ""This grand piece of historical fiction, set in the fifteenth century, has everything you could wish for in a story: kings and rebels, betrayals and murder, a heartbreaking romance that seems destined for destruction."" --Fredrik Backman, The New Yorker

""A tantalizing mystery, a foreboding, claustrophobic sense of place and a pair of unforgettable investigators.""-- ""Newsday"" ""In his debut novel, Natt och Dag examines the effects of a brutal murder on those who investigate it--and explores the psychological causes for the crime...Chilling and thought-provoking. Relentless, well-written, and nearly impossible to put down."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist"" -- ""Guardian"" ""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"" ""Thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful.""--Fredrik Backman, international bestselling author Praise for the works of Niklas Natt och Dag ""Mysteries don't come much rawer than Natt och Dag's gut-wrenching and moving page-turner, his second featuring Stockholm watchman Jean Michael Cardell (after 2019's The Wolf and the Watchman)...Natt och Dag expertly combines fully realized, flawed characters with vivid period detail. This tale of the cruelties that people are capable of inflicting on each other will leave few readers unshaken.""-- ""Publisher's Weekly (starred review)"" ""The Alienist set in eighteenth-century Stockholm: 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 ""For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice...a stunning debut...Like Umberto Eco's novel [The Name of the Rose, this] is a cerebral, immersive page-turner [with] a moral heft reminiscent of works by Graham Greene...Plenty of twists to satisfy thrill-starved readers."" -- ""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""

""Desires, tragedies, and betrayals are revealed through the perspectives of power-hungry nobles, undervalued women, and grasping clergy with the immersive world-building detail of an epic fantasy novel. Fans of C. J. Sansom's and S. W. Perry's Tudor mysteries will appreciate the historical details and timeless motivations."" --Booklist ""Immersive... this swashbuckling slice of historical fiction has its charms."" --Publishers Weekly ""Game of Thrones without dragons."" --Gefle Dagblad (Sweden) ""This grand piece of historical fiction, set in the fifteenth century, has everything you could wish for in a story: kings and rebels, betrayals and murder, a heartbreaking romance that seems destined for destruction."" --Fredrik Backman, The New Yorker

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Niklas Natt och Dag (""Night and Day"") is a member of the oldest surviving noble family in Sweden. The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793, his first novel, was named the Best Debut of 2017 by the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers. It and the second book in the trilogy, The City Between the Bridges: 1794, are being published in thirty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and their two sons.

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