The hangman's daughter

Oliver Pötzsch

earliest edition we have, 2008 Brand: AmazonCrossing, 2011 hardcover 464 pages

Die Henkerstochter — book 1

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...

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The Hangman's Daughter hardcover · 2011 · Brand: AmazonCrossing · 464 pages · 9781611091496
The hangman's daughter edition · 2011 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 435 pages · 9780547745015
The hangman's daughter edition · 2010 · AmazonCrossing · 435 pages · 9781935597056
Die Henkerstochter edition · 2008 · Ullstein · 512 pages · 9783548268521

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