The Dark Monk
- ISBN-10
- 0547807686
- ISBN-13
- 9780547807683
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 463
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Oliver Pötzsch
Description
A follow-up to the internationally best-selling The Hangman's Daughter traces the 1648 investigation by hangman Jakob Kuisl, his headstrong daughter and the town physician into the poisoning murder of a priest whose demise is precariously linked to the Crusades and the Knights Templar treasure. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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