Oliver Pötzsch

A young man’s destined quest becomes a dance with the devil in a mesmerizing retelling of the Faust legend by the bestselling author of the Hangman’s Daughter series....

June 16, 1692. Relic dealer Georg Ayndorfer is found slain in the Chapel of St. Quirinus of Tegernsee....

Lukas wants only two things: to rebuild his castle home in time to make it through the coming winter and to reconnect with the sister who was stolen from him in a plot against his family. But then an astrologer appears with foreboding news....

In 1672, hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich for a meeting of the hangmen’s guild. But something dark is happening behind the scenes: in the past weeks, young women have begun turning up dead....

Welcome to Knight Kyle's world! Beyond the great forest and towering Dragon Mountain lies Fairyland, a land of elves and trolls, dragons and giants, magicians and fairies. And in one corner, Fairyland East, lives Knight Kyle. Kyle's great-grandfather once possessed a silver lance that, according...

In 1886, King Ludwig II, the King of Bavaria, was deposed on grounds of mental incapacity without any medical examination. His "diagnosis" remains controversial among historians to this day. Soon after his fall from power, Ludwig died under mysterious circumstances, leaving the eccentric and...

Trügerische Idylle in Oberbayern: Ungewöhnliche und überraschende Morde erschüttern das Voralpenland. In bitterbösen, spannenden...

A showman’s fate is in the hands of the devil in an enthralling novel inspired by the Faust legend from the bestselling author of the Hangman’s Daughter series....

Vienna, 1895: nella cripta sotto la cattedrale di Santo Stefano un gruppo di turisti trova un cadavere. È il corpo di un uomo, che giace tra gli scheletri con il volto contorto dal terrore.

Ricostruzione storica accurata, intreccio avvincente e atmosfera da brivido. Vienna, 1894. Augustin Rothmayer, il singolare becchino del cimitero centrale, uomo colto che sa tutto sulla morte, riceve un'insolita richiesta dall'ispettore Leopold von Herzfeldt, con cui ha già collaborato in...

Augustin Rothmayer è un becchino nel famoso cimitero centrale di Vienna. Herzfeldt ha bisogno della collaborazione di un esperto nella preparazione dei cadaveri: diverse cameriere sono state uccise per essere poi brutalmente impalate.