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The Council of Twelve

A Hangman's Daughter Tale, Book 7

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The Council of Twelve

By: Oliver Pötzsch, Lisa Reinhardt - translator
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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The seventh chilling mystery in the bestselling Hangman’s Daughter series.

The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire’s hangmen’s guild - prestigious for dishonourable hangmen at least. But something dark is happening behind the scenes: in the past weeks, young women have begun turning up dead. At first the authorities assume they are a rash of suicides, but when Kuisl notices that each woman possesses a matching amulet, suspicions arise that someone is murdering them.

With no suspects, the superstitious townsfolk of Munich blame the hangmen’s guild, certain that they have called the devil upon the city. Joined by his daughter Magdalena, son-in-law Simon, the rest of his extended family and a slew of eccentric hangmen, Kuisl must solve the mystery of who is murdering the women. If he fails, the consequences could reverberate across the empire, affecting all the hangmen in Germany.

©2017 Oliver Pötzsch. Translation © 2018 by Lisa Reinhardt. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime
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Fantastic novel, partly historical partly fictitious made more interesting by the fact that lot of the subjects of the novel are actually his historical relatives in the roles they play in the novel. Kept me on the edge of my seat with a real twist at the end which seems to be the author’s type. Well worth the purchase and listen.

Another amazing novel

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As with most other non-English books, this has been translated into American and is therefore read by an American in American English. As usual this is never clear in the blurb. So if as an English speaker, you are able to put up with "vest", "pants" etc all meaning something different and you can bear the 50+ occurrences of "'erbs", then you may well enjoy this book. It's packed with authentic and well researched historical interest and in classic style a series of seemingly unconnected plot strands come together for an exciting conclusion.

Notwithstanding the above, Grover Gardener - so good with Saul Bellow, is excellent.

A rewarding story in classic style - BRIT WARNING

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read them all 7 with a great pleasure. found out quite few interesting facts about these times.

just brilliant

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