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Product Identifiers
PublisherAtria Books
ISBN-101668069873
ISBN-139781668069875
eBay Product ID (ePID)23074803606
Product Key Features
Book TitleHope and Destiny : a Novel
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicCrime, Literary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorNiklas Natt Och Dag
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight11.9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsNiklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist, 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., The Alienist set in eighteenth-century Stockholm: Brawny, bloody, intricate, enthralling--and the best historical thriller I've read in twenty years., A tantalizing mystery, a foreboding, claustrophobic sense of place and a pair of unforgettable investigators., 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., 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., 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., 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.", " 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, " 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
SynopsisThe author of the "thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful" (Fredrik Backman) Wolf and the Watchman series presents a new historical series that takes us to medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country's most infamous murder mysteries. 1434: The unified kingdoms of northern Europe are cracking at their seams as a peasant rebellion, led by the charismatic figure Engelbrekt Engelbrekts, erupts in the north. Sent by his family to find a foothold in this rising revolutionary movement is young Magnus Bengtsson, who must win Engelbrekt's trust and favor no matter the cost. Back at Magnus's family castle, his mother, father, and sister wait for news of his success. One is lost in longing, another is forging his own plan for the throne and crown, and one is looking for the opportunity to rise from her brother's shadow.
