The Dark Monk: A Hangman's Daughter Tale

From the New York Times Bestselling Author 'Oliver Pötzsch' of THE HANGMAN’S DAUGHTER. The Dark Monk, The Bavaria, 1660 A priest is poisoned. Three unlikely sleuths led by a hangman are called to investigate.

They seek the treasure of the Knights Templar. Some will kill to possess it. Others will die to protect it.

The Dark Monk, A Hangman's Daughter Tale. It Would Be A Sin To Miss It.

Oliver Pötzsch is the written and Lee Chadeayne has translated this book in English. It takes 887 KB on you kindle and it has 516 pages. It was published on 12th June 2012 by Amazon Crossing.

Book Description

1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors on 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.

Following 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.

The Dark Monk: A Hangman's Daughter Tale (US Edition) [Kindle Edition]

But 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.

Delivering on the promise of his international best seller The Hangman’s Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch takes us on a whirlwind tour--once again based on prodigious historical research into his own family tree--through the occult hiding places of Bavaria’s ancient monasteries, bringing to life an unforgettable hangman and his tenacious daughter, painting a robust tableau of 17th-century Bavaria as it navigates the lasting impacts of war, and quickening our pulses with a gripping, mesmerizing mystery.