Oliver Pötzsch

Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town....

1662: Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of a village in the Alps, receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit....

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....

In this thrilling adventure by bestselling author Oliver Pötzsch, thirteen-year-old Lukas has been trained as a swordsman by his father, a nobleman who was once a famed Musketeer....

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 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolt against the harsh treatment by their aristocratic overlords....

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....

It is 1648, a small village in the Alps: In the thick of a blizzard,a town priest discovers he’s been poisoned....

When the body of a beautiful young woman is found on the autobahn, dressed in a glittering party dress and bathed in June rain, Franza is determined to give her justice....

Kyle's great-grandfather once possessed a silver lance that, according to legend, gave its owner invincible power. The lance is now missing, and Kyle is always looking for it....

In 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon are traveling to the town of Bamberg....

This thrilling fourth entry in the Hangman's Daughter series features scheming monks, murderous robots, and the action and intrigue that never seem to cease when the Kuisls are on a case....

It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school....

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.

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 precedenza: deve raccontargli tutto sulla conservazione dei defunti.

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.