Oliver Pötzsch
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
When an encoded diary about Ludwig, the fairytale king of Bavaria who was declared insane and died mysteriously soon thereafter, falls into his hands, rare book dealer Steven Lukas is forced to go on the run as he becomes the target of Ludwig's deranged modern-day followers.
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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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...
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