1793. History of a Murder

The best debut of 2017 according to the Swedish Academy of Detective Writers.
This exciting, witty and incredibly beautiful book about the dark times of Stockholm’s life with a famously twisted criminal plot and detailed on the basis of historical documents by the city life of the 18th century glorified the novice author, a descendant of the ancient noble family of Nit-o-Dag. His book is compared with the "perfumer" Patrick Zyuskind and the novels of Milorad Pavich. "1793" became a bestseller in Sweden, and a week after the first publication - and all over the world.
There was no more fierce winter than in 1793 in Stockholm. Four years after the assault on the Bastille in France and more than a year after the death of King Gustav III in Sweden Paranoi and conspiracies inhabit the streets of the city. An animal horror dissolved in the air creeps into every dirty nook shequake when a disfigured body is found in the water, and the investigation reveals the most terrible details of the hidden life of the Swedish elite