The Hangman's Daughter

The Hangman's Daughter
ISBN-10
054774501X
ISBN-13
9780547745015
Category
Fiction
Pages
435
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Oliver Pötzsch

Description

After a local midwife is accused of being a witch and murdering an orphan in the 17th century, Bavarian Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his daughter, Magdalena, believe that midwife is innocent and seek out the true killer, despite Jakob being charged with torturing a confession out of the accused woman. Reissue.

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