This third book in the 'Hangman's Daughter' series finds Hangman Jacob Kuisl being framed for the murder of his sister and her husband. On a ruse, he is lured to Regensburg, where he finds his sister murdered and is immediately arrested. The Hangman of Regensburg uses the same tortures on him that Jacob inflicts on those arrested in his town of Schongau, in order to get him to confess. Meantime, his headstrong daughter Magdalena and her lover, Medicus Simon Fronweiser, run away to Regensburg to live with her aunt. When they get there and find her murdered and Jacob in gaol, they set out to find out the real culprit. They are taken in by beggars, helped out by the town head raftsman, and lured into complacency by an Italian nobleman.
This is another riveting tale of 17th century Bavaria, with all the medieval skullduggery any reader could hope for!
514 pages
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