The City Between the Bridges
1794: A Novel
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
A #1 international bestseller, this atmospheric and breathtaking sequel to the “cerebral, immersive page-turner” (The Washington Post) The Wolf and the Watchman explores the darkness hidden beneath the splendor of 18th-century Stockholm.
Stockholm, 1794: A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in a hospital as the rest of the city claims that he belongs in a madhouse. Riddled with guilt, he writes down the memories of his lost love—his beautiful wife who died on their wedding night.
The young woman’s mother also mourns her death and, desperate for justice, begs for help from the only person who will listen to her: Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. But she isn’t the only person seeking him out.
Emil, younger brother to the brilliant lawyer and detective Cecil Winge, finds the watchman to demand his late brother’s pocket watch back. Instead, Cardell enlists Emil’s help to discover what really happened at the Three Roses estate that dreaded wedding night.
The City Between the Bridges: 1794 is a suspenseful race for the truth before it’s too late from an author with a “thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful” (Fredrik Backman, #1 New York Times bestselling author) voice.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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). Erik Three Roses, an 18th-century nobleman who's hospitalized, believes himself a murderer. Flashbacks recount how Erik, a younger son with no prospects, fell in love with Linnea Colling, the daughter of one of his father's tenants. His father strenuously opposed their marriage plans, and Erik was exiled to Saint Barthélemy, a Swedish colony dominated by the slave trade in the Caribbean. Unexpected developments enabled him to return home and wed, but his joy turned to despair when he awoke from his honeymoon night to find his bride torn apart and his own body soaked in her blood, leading to his hospitalization aimed at curing his mental illness believed responsible for the slaughter . In 1794, Linnea's mother dismisses the theory that her child was mauled by wolves—and she also can't credit that Erik killed Linnea. Cardell accepts her request to investigate and gets drawn into the heart of human darkness. 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.
