Oliver Pötzsch
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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Trepidante y extremo. El thriller histórico que triunfa en toda Europa. 3.500.000 de lectores.
En el Prater, el parque más importante de la ciudad, aparece el cuerpo de una criada asesinada de forma brutal. Leopold von Herzfeldt, un joven inspector de policía, será el encargado del caso, a pesar de no contar con el favor de sus colegas, que no quieren saber nada de sus novedosos métodos de investigación, como la inspección de la escena del...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Description
El thriller histórico que triunfa en toda Europa. 3.500.000 de lectores.
Viena, 1894. En un sarcófago del Museo de Historia de la ciudad aparece, momificado, el cuerpo del profesor Alfons Strössner, uno de los mayores egiptólogos del mundo. Leopold von Harzfeldt será el encargado de la investigación y pronto descubrirá que, de los cuatro miembros de su última expedición a la Tierra Negra, tres han fallecido en extrañas circunstancias, por...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
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...
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English
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When an encoded diary about Ludwig, the fairytale king of Bavaria who was declared insane and died mysteriously soon thereafter, falls into his hands, rare book dealer Steven Lukas is forced to go on the run as he becomes the target of Ludwig's deranged modern-day followers.
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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.
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he's administered himself for years. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beer-brewing monk, and an...
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Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1666, Magdalena, the hangman's daughter and her physician husband arrive at Andechs Abbey where they, along with Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of Schongau, set out to find the mysterious Brother Virgilius, a monk, watchmaker and inventor, who disappeared after creating an eerie automata.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"An epic tale of murder, treachery, bravery, and love In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of these overlords, but she is not a typical sixteenth-century girl, refusing to wear dresses and spending more time with her pet falcon than potential suitors. There is only one suitor she is interested in: Mathis, a childhood friend...
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Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon travel to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare: a murderer in Bamberg is leaving the severed limbs of victims in the trash outside the city. When rumors quickly spread that the deaths are the work of a werewolf, Jakob must prove the superstition wrong and embarks on a search for the 'devil of Bamberg'"--
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The mysterious sixth entry in the Hangman's Daughter series. It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man who was to play the part of Christ in the town's Passion Play has been found dead, nailed to the set's cross. As there is no doctor in town, Simon is brought in to examine the body. The chance to...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The seventh installment of Oliver Potzsch's bestselling Hangman's Daughter series"--
"1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich for a meeting of the prestigious-- for hangmen, at least-- Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire's hangmen's guild. When young women begin turning up dead, the authorities assume they are a rash of suicides. But Kusil notices that each woman possesses a matching amulet, and suspects someone is murdering...
12) The devil's pawn
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Series
Faust ; 2
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rome, 1518. Johann Faust is a renowned magician, astrologer, and chiromancer traveling through Germany with his successful troupe: the orphaned juggler Greta and his loyal companion Karl. The avaricious Pope Leo X now requires Johann's services to replenish the papacy's drained coffers through alchemy. But the devil, with whom a regretful Johann once agreed to an unholy trade for fame, wants something else. Racked with paralyzing seizures, Johann...
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Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's the fifteenth century and only heretics are curious about the universe. Germany, 1494. Born under a rare alignment of the stars, Johann Georg Gerlach, the lucky one to his mother--is fated for greatness. But Johann's studies and wonder at the sky has made him suspect. Especially in wake of the child disappearances that have left the God-fearing locals trembling and his one true love trapped in terrified catatonia. Her only words: "I have seen...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"1666: Two monks at the monastery of Andechs experiment with cutting-edge technology, including a method of deflecting the lightning that has previously set the monastery ablaze. When one of the monks disappears and his lab is destroyed, foul play is suspected. Who better to investigate than the famed hangman Jakob Kuisl?" --