Bøger af Karen Engelmann

Stockholm, 1791. Emil Larsson is a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise. He is a true man of the Town?a drinker, card player, and contented bachelor. That is until Mrs. Sofia Sparrow, fortune-teller and proprietor of an exclusive gaming parlor, shares with him a vision she has had of a golden path that will lead Emil to love and connection. She lays an Octavo for him, a spread of eight cards that augur the eight individuals who can help him realize this vision?if he can find them.But as Emil eagerly searches for his eight, he comes to the startling realization that finding them is no longer just a game of the heart, but crucial to pulling his country back from the crumbling precipice of rebellion and chaos.

Ein außergewöhnlicher Historienroman mit jeder Menge Spannung und einem Hauch Mystik! Europa im 18. Jahrhundert: der Kontinent befindet sich im Umbruch, blutige Revolutionen sind im Gange. In Schweden fürchtet König Gustav III. um seinen Thron, da er sogar am eigenen Hof von Feinden umgeben ist. Die ungewisse Zukunft des Königreiches beschäftigt auch die einflussreiche Wahrsagerin Sofia Sparv und ihren Freund Emil Larsson. Als Sofia Emil die Karten legt, offenbaren diese, dass sein Schicksal mit dem von acht weiteren Personen verknüpft ist. Diese geheimnisvolle Verbindung kann weitreichende Folgen für ganz Schweden haben...Karen Engelmann wurde in den USA geboren. Nach ihrem Studium im Fach Grafikdesign zog sie für mehrere Jahre nach Schweden, um dort unter anderem als Illustratorin und Grafikerin zu arbeiten. 2013 erschien sie mit dem historischen Roman „Das Stockholm Oktavo" ihr bisher erfolgreichstes Werk. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Familie lebt Karen Engelmann heute nahe New York City.

'A delicious page-turner that brings 18th century Stockholm to vivid life, complete with scandal, conspiracy, mystery, and a hint of magic.' - Eleanor Brown, New York Times bestselling author of The Weird SistersIn 18th century Stockholm, as the winds of revolution rage through the great capitals of Europe, the key to a nation's fate rests in the hands of an unlikely hero. Emil Larsson is a drinker, card player and contented bachelor until he is told that his position at the Office of Excise and Customs depends on his settling down and finding a wife. Mrs Sparrow, proprietor of an exclusive gaming house, fortune teller (and confidante of King Gustav III) offers to lay an Octavo for him - a form of cartomancy which can divine his future if he can find the eight individuals who can help him realise his vision. When Mrs Sparrow wins a mysterious fan in her card game, the Octavo's deeper powers are revealed. No longer just a game of the heart, collecting his Eight is now crucial to pulling his country back from the brink of rebellion and chaos.A debut novel full of opulent period detail, brilliantly interweaving history, romance and intrigue, in which one man's fortune holds the key to a nation's precarious fate.