The hangman's daughter
by Oliver Pötzsch
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Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is found dead, marked by the same tattoo, the mounting hysteria threatens to erupt into chaos. Before the unrest forces him to torture and execute the very woman who aided in the birth of his children, Jakob must unravel the truth. With the help of his clever daughter, Magdelena, and Simon, the university-educated son of the town's physician, Jakob discovers that a devil is indeed loose in Schongau. But it may be too late to prevent bloodshed.
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The Hangman's Daughter
Nov 22, 2011, Brand: AmazonCrossing, AmazonCrossing
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The hangman's daughter
2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
in English
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The hangman's daughter: a historical novel
2010, AmazonCrossing, Produced by Melcher Media
in English
1935597051 9781935597056
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"Mariner Books."
"First published in Germany in 2008 by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH as Die henkerstochter"--T.p. verso.
English translation from German.
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