The Order of the Furies is a perfect end to the Jean Michael Cardell series. I was originally riveted by 1793 The Wolf and the Watchman and 1794 The City between the Bridges. This last book did not disapoint.

Late 18th century Stockholm is not a place for the faint of heart. It is gritty, dirty, and violent. Jean Michael (Mikel) Cardell is a war veteran, an amputee, and a watchman who is on the hunt for Tycho Ceton. Cardell is assisted by Emil Winge and together, as they each fight their own inner battles and occasionally each other, they are in pursuit of Tycho Ceton.

Ceton is as evil a character as I've ever read. Mikel and Emil are flawed themselves, I'm not a squeamish reader, but at times Tycho's actions were alarming, almost too much. But every word, every action combined to create an atmosphere that will likely stay with me for a while. Simply one of the best books I've read so far this year.

<B>The Publisher Says</B>: The spellbinding and eerie finale to the #1 internationally bestselling “cerebral, immersive” (<I>The Washington Post</I>) historical trilogy follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm.

For more than a year, brilliant lawyer Emil Winge has dedicated himself to capturing the diabolical Tycho Ceton, with the invaluable assistance of one-armed army veteran and watchman Jean Michael Cardell. Their mission is made more difficult by the ever-increasing paranoia gripping Sweden’s royal family, who fear that a bloody revolution is brewing. A letter with the names of the revolutionary conspirators is said to be in the possession of Anna Stina Knapp, a good friend to Cardell. Now, Anna is missing and Cardell is determined to find her before the secret police take her into custody.

While Winge and Cardell fight for justice and for life, they find themselves caught between powerful enemies—those who will do anything to maintain the status quo, and those who will only be satisfied with its total destruction. Niklas Natt och Dag brilliantly concludes his immersion into the dark and turbulent waters of 18th-century Stockholm.

<B>I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. THANK YOU.

My Review</B>: Dark, turbulent story finishes the arc of this series with the finality of an amputation saw. We met Cecil Winge and Mickel Cardell in 1793 as a truly appalling series of crimes come to light. These men, one in the terminal stages of the Great White Plague (tuberculosis) that ravaged the cities of the time, refuse to just accept that human beings can be treated in the vile ways they've seen without any consequences. Solid Enlightenment values on display, then. A human being has innate worth and dignity, and the kind of killing being perpetrated by someone(s) is an affront to that dignity.

It is hard for us to get into that mindset today. The privilege baked into the world we live in is now centered on money as worth and virtue; then it was god-given by birth. Whose vagina you were shoved out of was, forver and ever, the Place you occupied in this world and the next. Is it, I often wonder, better to base stuff on money? I mean, just look at the scum who hoard huge piles of money and get immense privilege! Unlike the old aristocracy, no one prepared them in any way for the responsibility of "high" social position so they waddle about, dribbling crudeness and outgassing idiocy like this wasn't a disgusting display of vulgarity.

Ahem.

Back to the book: The "high-born" people committing the crimes Mickel and the Winge brothers (Emil takes Cecil's place in the last two books of the series) are sufficiently enraged by to pursue them clearly don't have any noblesse oblige in them either. They behave disgustingly, but in private. The results of their disgusting behavior are simply dumped and there's no absolutely clear-cut way to pin it on the perpetrator(s) or to hold them accountable.

It's in the book! That's not me being political!

What happens in this last volume is the culmination of honest, honorable men pursuing justice across a corrupt landscape of privilege and abuse of power. It's a landscape that is absolute in its wins and losses. That is what suits the PTB, after all, since it's their thumbs on the scales of justice. The disgusting crimes, ones that repulse all honorable people of every station, in this book are less...meaty...but just as awful. The essential crime in the entire series, the one thing that unites the books and makes the reader invest in the characters and stories, is the abuse of power by the powerful. The lives of ordinary people are ruined at a whim, are altered for the worse by someone who has no consequences for that alteration. The team who set out to change that are doing so, bit by bit, in the teeth of a gale blown directly at them by men who do not want any precedents to be set that challenge their control.

The fierceness and appalling cruelty of the fight shows that they know the stakes are existential. Lose this one battle against two little nobodies and lose, once and for all, the Absolute Rights they presently enjoy. The force applied to Mickel and the Winges only makes sense when you look at it from the position of those whose power is at stake. The power that the little guys are fighting to take, the justice that they seek for victims cruelly used, is not out of proportion, that is overtly revolutionary, so why is it being resisted so fiercely?

Because once limited, absolute power dissolves. If held accountable for *this* crime, there is no longer immunity, no longer a usable reason to quash future and further reckonings. Why do you think there's something called a "consent decree"? The entire apparatus of Sweden's absolute monarchy topples if these two little men win Justice for the victims they're fighting for!

Do they, in the end, win? Read the book(s), dark and violent as they are, because I'm scared of the Spoiler Stasi. Those women take no prisoners.

Sadly, I have tried three times to become engrossed in this book but have finally decided I need to have read the two previous books in the trilogy. This looked well-written and interesting enough that I have bought Kindle copies of the first two books and may someday come back to edit this review..

For now, my rating is based on my continued interest in Niklas Natt och Dag's trilogy.

I am such a huge fan of Scandi Crime novels but for quite a long time I struggled to find any books from this sub-genre that had more of a historical element, which is why I was so thrilled to discover the Jean Mickel Cardell series. This is the third book in the trilogy and I will say straight away that I really think you need to read the previous two books to be able to fully appreciate this one. However, the book is split into four parts and if you haven't read the other books, there is some background explanation in part one to give an idea of the situation.

I didn't find The Order of the Furies quite as dark as the previous books (although they were extremely grim), but it still paints a pretty bleak picture of Stockholm in the 18th century. An incredibly detailed and really satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, this type of story is not going to be to everyone's taste but if you are a fan of slower-paced, noir and descriptive historical crime fiction then this trilogy is a must read!

My thanks to Atria books, Niklas Natt och Dag and Netgalley.
That author name is a mouthful of weirdness!.
Listen. I've been reading this series from Mr. Dag? Mr. Natt och Dag? Whatever. I'm just one of those ignoramus American's who can't figure out the names! So what? However Mr. Man pronounces his name, I'm there for that!
This book isn't going to do anything for you if you haven't already read the previous books in this series. Sure, they can lie and tell you it all comes out in the wash. Liars! This is a series that's best read from the beginning. I was initially disgusted by the first book. Why not? Read it and see.
Thing about these books are the reality of how life was back then. I am absolutely appalled! Yet, I'm still spellbound.
Hell. Since I'm high as a kite on these lovely painkillers, I may as well speak the truth. I think these translations could have been better. Also, I think this author deserves to be translated. He makes me happy and his stories are the bomb diggity!

This is the third book in a trilogy (1793 The Wolf and the Watchman and 1794 The City between the Bridges), and I would recommend reading the first two before this one to really appreciate the story. I did find that the first book was the best, though this book was also a good read. This story is told in 4 parts, Part one covers some of the events that happened in the last book, Jean Michael Cardell is a watchman in Stockholm Sweden, tasked with patrolling the streets, his friend Emil Winge is a lawyer occasionally called on to act as a type of detective with the police. Cardell and Winge are searching for Anna Stina Knapp, a woman who had been tasked with obtaining a list of names of people who want to start a revolution to overthrow the Royals that govern Sweden, she had been successful in this task, but had disappeared before she could give the list to anyone. Anna's two young children had perished in an orphanage fire, Cardell had been entrusted with their care and had placed them in the orphanage while Anna was obtaining the list of names. Tycho Ceton was a wealthy man associated to a group of like minded men who enjoyed perverse activities, he had fell out of favor and was left destitute, he make overtures to a contact within the group, proposing an activity that will fascinate all. The story is a bit slow at times, in particular Part 2, but it does all come together in the end and I would recommend especially if you enjoy historical reads. Thanks to #Netgalley and #Atria Books for the ARC.

I loved the idea of a historical mystery novel, it had a great overall story going on. I thought it worked as a finale to this series and had a great writing to it. Niklas Natt och Dag has a great writing style and the characters were perfectly written.

The book written by Niklas Natt och Dag gives you a final to the historical trilogy. Emil Winge and Michael Cardell had a mission to capture Tycho Ceton. However their mission was to capture a woman called Anna Stina Knapp, she had twins that were at Tycho Ceton's orphanage when Eric Three Roses burned down the orphanage. Michael Cardell tried to save Anna Stina Knapps twins and burned his head when he tried, but they were lost in the fire. They had to make a deal with Isak Blom to put Emil Winge in a sanatorium to get Tycho Ceton to be put in Michael Cardell's person. To be hanged for many reasons. There are many issues that were taken care of in the book and it was a teaser at the end. I hardly recommend reading this book.