The Dark Monk is the second in Oliver Pötzsch's Hangman's Daughter series. The setting: 17th century Bavaria The characters: Schongau town hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, town doctor Simon Fronweiser, and a host of supporting characters. Many of the supporting characters also appeared...
The Dark Monk is the second story from Oliver Potzsch about Jacob Kuisl--the big, tough, gruff, skilled, and troubled town executioner in the mid-17th century Bavarian town of Schongau. Like the first book, the author has carefully recreated life in the 1600's and woven a cleaver and exiting story ...