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Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 7
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 496 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire's hangmen's guild -- prestigious for dishonourable hangmen at least. But something dark is happening behind the scenes: in the past weeks, young women have begun turning up dead. At first the authorities assume they are a rash of suicides, but when Kuisl notices that...
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 4
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xv, 496 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
1666: The monastery at Andechs has long been a pilgrimage destination, but when the hangman’s daughter, Magdalena, her doctor husband Simon, and their two small children arrive there, they learn that the monks have far larger concerns than saying Mass and receiving alms. It seems that once again, the hangman’s family has fallen into a mysterious and dangerous adventure. Two monks at the monastery experiment with cutting edge technology, including...
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 5
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxii, 570 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon travel to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare: a murderer in Bamberg is leaving the severed limbs of victims in the trash outside the city. When rumors quickly spread that the deaths are the work of a werewolf, Jakob must prove the superstition wrong and embarks on a search for the 'devil of Bamberg'.
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xxii, 466 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he's administered himself for years. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beer-brewing...
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 2
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xviii, 463 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 1
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
435 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the 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...
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 6
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 493 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man who was to play the part of Christ in the town’s Passion Play has been found dead, nailed to the set’s cross. As there is no doctor in town, Simon is brought in to examine the body. The chance to spend more time with his son and to investigate the murder...
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