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.