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A Hangman's Daughter Tale #1
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December 2011
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Featuring: Jakob Kuisl; Magdalena
448 pages
ISBN: 054774501X
EAN: 9780547745015
Kindle: B003P9XMFI
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Germany, 1660: 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. So begins The Hangman's Daughter--the
chillingly detailed, fast-paced historical thriller from
German television screenwriter Oliver Pötzsch, a descendant
of the Kuisls, a famous Bavarian executioner clan.
Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of Bavarian
hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her father outside the
village walls and is destined to be married off to another
hangman’s son—except that the town physician’s son is
hopelessly in love with her. And her father’s wisdom and
empathy are as unusual as his despised profession. It is
1659, the Thirty Years’ War has finally ended, and there
hasn’t been a witchcraft mania in decades. But now, a
drowning and gruesomely injured boy, tattooed with the mark
of a witch, is pulled from a river and the villagers suspect
the local midwife, Martha Stechlin. Jakob Kuisl is
charged with extracting a confession from her and torturing
her until he gets one. Convinced she is innocent, he,
Magdalena, and her would-be suitor to race against the clock
to find the true killer. Approaching Walpurgisnacht, when
witches are believed to dance in the forest and mate with
the devil, another tattooed orphan is found dead and the
town becomes frenzied. More than one person has spotted what
looks like the devil—a man with a hand made only of bones.
The hangman, his daughter, and the doctor’s son face a
terrifying and very real enemy. Taking us back
in history to a place where autopsies were blasphemous,
coffee was an exotic drink, dried toads were the recommended
remedy for the plague, and the devil was as real as
anything, The Hangman’s Daughter brings to
cinematic life the sights, sounds, and smells of
seventeenth-century Bavaria, telling the engrossing story of
a compassionate hangman who will live on in readers’
imaginations long after they’ve put down the novel.
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