Set in 1659, in the small town of Schongau in Bavaria, Germany, more than one child has been murdered and they bear an unusual mark on their shoulders. The town’s hangman, Jakob Kuisl, is ordered to torture a confession out of the town midwife, Marta, who is suspected of witchcraft. Jakob doesn’t be...
Series: Hangman’s Daughter #1 It’s 17th century Germany, and a small boy is found in the river, close to death. A midwife is blamed (mob mentality, 17th century) and locked up. The hangman, Jakob Kuisl is asked to torture a confession out of her for the good of the town. He doesn’t believe she’s ...
I started reading The Werewolf of Bamberg and was quickly reminded that the translations of these books suck. I had to ask myself, why do like these stories so much? By the end I'd figured it out. I keep coming back to the Hangman's Daughter stories because I love that I can never guess the endi...
What I liked about "The Hangman's Daughter" was how directly it dealt with the brutality of life in seventeenth century Bavaria. The work of the town hangman: torturing, breaking bones, and executing people with sword or rope or fire, is described with a graphic clarity that is not for the faint hea...
I seem to be on an average book streak lately, which is better than a bad book streak, but only just. This book has a lot of things going for it. It's got a good premise, a good setting, and Vikings (yay, Vikings!). Gable must have done a ton of research, and it shows in the richly detailed world ...
I did enjoy the book, but if I'm being completely honest... this is a book to be read if you have the time. The book has 6 parts and each part has at least... bare minimum 8 chapters. So at times the book seemed to drag, but the story is interesting enough that you continue. This is a story about a ...
"She staggered along the northbound shoulder of the autobahn in the mist of the rising dawn unaware of the danger hurtling toward her." Franza Oberweiser is a veteran homicide detective. Along with her partner, Felix, she investigates the death of a young girl who hit by a car on the autobahn. The...
Luthi’s study of fairy tales is concerned mostly with German fairy tales, and therefore, mostly with the Grimms. It is a tad dated, especially when he looks at the tale so of primitive people (ie Non-whites). However his comments about tales and story telling are still important.
I'm still trying to figure out why this book is titled The Hangman's Daughter. Was this the original title, or did AmazonCrossing decide to follow the Daughter-in-the-title fad when producing the English translation? This is what I kept asking myself while reading as it became more and more apparen...
A few years ago when this book came out, it created quite a buzz for itself. I think it was a best seller of some sort (national? international? who cares). It was a book that everyone I spoke to adored; though I really had absolutely no idea what it was about, the mass outcrying that it was bri...
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