The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag review – gruesome Swedish thriller

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A debut vividly depicts acts of cruelty in lawless 18th-century Stockholm – but are its shocks gratuitous?

s aficionados of modern Nordic noir in print and on television we have grown familiar with the endless night of northern winters, stark landscapes that conceal unspeakable acts of cruelty, flawed and damaged protagonists compelled to battle their own demons as they pursue the perpetrators. In, his first novel and a bestseller in his native Sweden, Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist.

 

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