1793, by Niklas Nat Och Dag

Remember well the date made as the title of this novel, because giving the name of the author you may be stuck for life. Nothing to see 1984, of the already more easily pronounceable George Orwell.

Jokes aside, we are faced with one of those explosive discoveries of the crime novel. And that for a Swedish writer to stand out in any ramification of the detective genre, the thing has to be shocking.

And of course, the question is the historical aspect that delves even further into the darkness of the past, into the notion of a world subjected, in terms of criminal investigation, both science and cabal as well as superstitions and myths.

Nothing better to talk about a psychological thriller that leads you to suffer the tension of a past world where justice could move in unpredictable directions between wars between countries and internal struggles within each country.

Because the context of the novel brings us closer to a crucial moment in the Sweden in the late XNUMXth century. The war with Russia and its subsequent famine ultimately led to the assassination of the monarch Gustav III, with the addition of lurking shadows of new revolutions from southern Europe.

Among such incessant movement we know who will be the conductor of the plot, the attorney Cecil Winge tasked with solving a murder with an unexpected ally Mickel cardell.

Cardell discovers a mutilated victim and turns the investigation over to Winge. But both end up, as I say, joining forces to determine the nature of the crime and the murderer in question.

Of course, the scenario chosen by the author is the best to feel in the reader's flesh all those tensions from the social to the political that embark them in looming dangers. Taking advantage of the stereotype of the northernmost Europe to give the matter cold and chiaroscuro.

Duly placed in the antecedents and from the atrocious murder, the agility of the author serves us, with brushstrokes of brilliant historical scenery, the entire microcosm of characters in the disparate social strata of Sweden in those days. The underworlds intermingle with the most elegant palace spaces. The truth connects with the most evil interests and wills capable of everything for a vague promise of prosperity.

With the magical rhythm of this new author we go through moments of rapturous psychological tension, but we also enter a time that at times, perhaps measured in focus, is in tune with the same current human nature.

Since the world is world, reality needs its counterweights to find balances, sometimes petty, which are assumed to be buried in consciousness. At least on the part of those who want the state of affairs to move towards sustainability in moments of intense anxiety.

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