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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
I really enjoy this series. The characters are interesting and likable. So glad I have The Poisoned Pilgrim to read next!
mysterious
slow-paced
This is the third in the Hangman's Daughter series and was my favorite of the three so far. Another murder mystery with the hangman of Schongau, his beautiful daughter, and her true love at the center. This one has more intrigue and plot twists, and it seemed every chapter my suspicion of who were the good guys and who were the villains would change. I and wait for the next one in the series.
I would have given it four stars, except for the anachronistic language. Nothing takes me out 1600s Bavaria faster than a character telling someone to "shove it" or that a person is "not that into" doing something. I think it's lazy writing and even lazier editing. I guess I'm a stickler that way.
Another happy ending, almost too happy, for the Kuisl family.
I've enjoyed the Hangman's Daughter series and enjoy being taken not just to another place (Germany), but also to another time (mid-late 1600s). I like the dynamics of all the characters and how they fit together. I have yet to be able to figure out what is going to happen next in each of these books, so finding out that the motivation for events A, B & C actually stem from a singular event 25 years earlier makes you stop and think about things that you may have done in your life, that could be brought back up in 25 years.
Not my favorite of the series so far, but still an enjoyable read.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The spins a great tale while capturing life in midieval Bavaria.
I have to start pacing myself with these books: I originally meant to save them for vacation reading, but there I went and gobbled one up during a work week. Oups. Back to 17th century Bavaria I go!
In the third book of Oliver Potzsch’s amazingly entertaining and well-written series of historical murder-mysteries, we follow Jakob Kuisl away from his home in the small town of Schongau to the city of Regensburg: he is summoned there by a letter from his brother-in-law, explaining that his sister is dying, and would like to see him before she passes. But when he gets to the city gate, he is arrested and help overnight by the guards. When they finally let him go, he arrives at his sister’s house only to find her and her husband murdered, their throats slashed open – and of course, he is immediately arrested for the crime. Meanwhile, his daughter Magdalena gets fed up with the laws that won’t allow her to marry Simon, her long-time suitor, and they decide to run away together to the city… of Regensburg. Of course, when they get there, they soon find out that Jakob has been imprisoned for a crime Magdalena cannot believe him to have committed, and decide to find out who really is behind this set-up before her father is tortured and executed.
This book was just as much fun as the previous two: Potzsch is a talented story-teller, and has created brilliant characters with the Kuisl (though created might be the wrong word, and his actual ancestor was a Jakob Kuisl who was the executioner in the small town of Schongau in the late 1600s) and their friends and allies. In the second book, Magdalena was the one who experienced fierce jealously when Simon befriended a woman, and in this one, the tables have turned; I personally really enjoy that these two lovebirds have a complicated relationship and wrestle with insecurities even if they have strong feelings for each other.
I think I can be good and wait for my next vacation to crack open the 4th book. I think. Very recommended for fans of pre-forensic science mysteries!
In the third book of Oliver Potzsch’s amazingly entertaining and well-written series of historical murder-mysteries, we follow Jakob Kuisl away from his home in the small town of Schongau to the city of Regensburg: he is summoned there by a letter from his brother-in-law, explaining that his sister is dying, and would like to see him before she passes. But when he gets to the city gate, he is arrested and help overnight by the guards. When they finally let him go, he arrives at his sister’s house only to find her and her husband murdered, their throats slashed open – and of course, he is immediately arrested for the crime. Meanwhile, his daughter Magdalena gets fed up with the laws that won’t allow her to marry Simon, her long-time suitor, and they decide to run away together to the city… of Regensburg. Of course, when they get there, they soon find out that Jakob has been imprisoned for a crime Magdalena cannot believe him to have committed, and decide to find out who really is behind this set-up before her father is tortured and executed.
This book was just as much fun as the previous two: Potzsch is a talented story-teller, and has created brilliant characters with the Kuisl (though created might be the wrong word, and his actual ancestor was a Jakob Kuisl who was the executioner in the small town of Schongau in the late 1600s) and their friends and allies. In the second book, Magdalena was the one who experienced fierce jealously when Simon befriended a woman, and in this one, the tables have turned; I personally really enjoy that these two lovebirds have a complicated relationship and wrestle with insecurities even if they have strong feelings for each other.
I think I can be good and wait for my next vacation to crack open the 4th book. I think. Very recommended for fans of pre-forensic science mysteries!