The hangman's daughter
Subtitle: a historical novel
By: Oliver Pötzsch ; translated by Lee Chadeayne
Contributors: Chadeayne, Lee
Publisher: AmazonCrossing; Produced by Melcher Media
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Las Vegas, NV; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9781935597056
Subjects: Fiction; Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648; Witches; History
Work titles: Henkerstochter
Description: 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. A brilliantly detailed, fast-paced historical thriller, The Hangman's Daughter is the first novel from German television screenwriter Oliver Pötzsch, a descendent of the Kuisls, a famous Bavarian executioner clan.
Notes: Originally published in 2008 by Ullstein Buchverlage as Die henkerstochter.

Translation of: Die Henkerstochter: historischer Roman.