The release date for the English version of 'The Hangman's Daughter' by
Oliver Pötzsch is Dec 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
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. Furthermore, her father's sensitivity and intelligence are as uncommon as his hated line of work. 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.
It is said that Jakob Kuisl would torture her until she confesses in order to force her to make one. He, Magdalena, and her prospective suitor, certain she is innocent, race against time to identify the real murderer. Another tattooed orphan is discovered dead as Walpurgisnacht approaches, a time when it is said that witches dance in the forest and mate with the devil, sending the community into a frenzy. Numerous witnesses have reported seeing a guy with a hand composed entirely of bones that seems to be the devil. There is a scary and very real adversary facing the hangman, his daughter, and the doctor's son.
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