Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Faust volume 1
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
531 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1494. Born under a rare alignment of the stars, Johann Georg Gerlach, the lucky one to his mother--is fated for greatness. But Johann's studies and wonder at the sky has made him suspect. Especially in wake of the child disappearances that have left the God-fearing locals trembling and his one true love trapped in terrified catatonia. Her only words: 'I have seen the devil....'"--Provided by publisher.
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 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 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...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request