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The hangman's daughter / Oliver Pötzsch ; translated by Lee Chadeayne.

Title: The hangman's daughter / Oliver Pötzsch ; translated by Lee Chadeayne.
Author: Pötzsch, Oliver
Publication: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Chadeayne, Lee

Description

435 p. : map; 21 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Henkerstochter. English

Alternative Title

Henkerstochter.

Subject

Genre/Form

Historical fiction
Occult fiction
Suspense fiction

Note

"Mariner Books."
"First published in Germany in 2008 by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH as Die henkerstochter"--T.p. verso.

Language (note)

English translation from German.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

9780547745015 (pbk.)
054774501X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011284218

OCLC

721882593
SCSB-11365814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library