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THE ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER THE HANGMAN?S DAUGHTER
A Hangman's Daughter Tale #2
Mariner Books
June 2012
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Featuring: Jakob Kuisl; Magdalena
528 pages
ISBN: 0547807686
EAN: 9780547807683
Kindle: B006JTTK3O
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1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the
Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors
the night a parish priest discovers he's been poisoned. As
numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his
strength to scratch a cryptic sign in the frost.
Following a trail of riddles, hangman Jakob Kuisl; his
headstrong daughter Magdalena; and the town physician’s son
team up with the priest’s aristocratic sister to
investigate. What they uncover will lead them back to the
Crusades, unlocking a troubled history of internal church
politics and sending them on a chase for a treasure of the
Knights Templar. But they’re not the only ones after
the legendary fortune. A team of dangerous and mysterious
monks is always close behind, tracking their every move,
speaking Latin in the shadows, giving off a strange,
intoxicating scent. And to throw the hangman off their
trail, they have ensured he is tasked with capturing a band
of thieves roving the countryside attacking solitary
travelers and spreading panic. Delivering on the
promise of his international best seller The Hangman’s
Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch takes us on a whirlwind
tour--once again based on prodigious historical research
into his own family tree--through the occult hiding places
of Bavaria’s ancient monasteries, bringing to life an
unforgettable compassionate hangman and his tenacious
daughter, painting a robust tableau of a 17th-century
Bavaria still negotiating the lasting impacts of war, and
quickening our pulses with a gripping, mesmerizing mystery.
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