{"product_id":"dark-monk-a-hangmans-daughter-tale","title":"Dark Monk: A Hangman's Daughter Tale","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDark Monk: A Hangman's Daughter Tale\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eOliver Pötzsch\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780547807683\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarperVia\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e512\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eTHE ANTICIPATED FOLLOWUP TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, \u003cem\u003eTHE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors the night a parish priest discovers he's been poisoned. As numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his strength to scratch a cryptic sign in the frost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing a trail of riddles, hangman Jakob Kuisl; his headstrong daughter Magdalena; and the town physician's son team up with the priest's aristocratic sister to investigate. What they uncover will lead them back to the Crusades, unlocking a troubled history of internal church politics and sending them on a chase for a treasure of the Knights Templar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut they're not the only ones after the legendary fortune. A team of dangerous and mysterious monks is always close behind, tracking their every move, speaking Latin in the shadows, giving off a strange, intoxicating scent. And to throw the hangman off their trail, they have ensured he is tasked with capturing a band of thieves roving the countryside attacking solitary travelers and spreading panic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelivering on the promise of the international bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Hangman's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, once again based on prodigious historical research into Pötzsch's family tree, \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Monk\u003c\/em\u003e takes us on a whirlwind tour through the occult hiding places of Bavaria's ancient monasteries, bringing to life an unforgettable compassionate hangman and his tenacious daughter, painting a robust tableau of a seventeenth-century Bavaria still negotiating the lasting impacts of war, and quickening our pulses with a gripping, mesmerizing mystery.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"HarperVia","offers":[{"title":"Dark Monk: A Hangman's Daughter Tale | Oliver Pötzsch | Paperback | 9780547807683 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1751599","offer_id":48927893586072,"sku":"1751599","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/7101sEhhjKL.jpg?v=1777058023","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dark-monk-a-hangmans-daughter-tale","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}