Oliver Pötzsch

While putting away books from an estate sale purchase, rare book-dealer Steven Lukas finds a box he's never seen before wedged between books on a high shelf....

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

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

Kurz nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg wird in der bayerischen Stadt Schongau ein sterbender Junge aus dem Lech gezogen. Eine Tätowierung...

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....

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....

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....

The New York Times bestselling author of The Hangman's Daughter returns with the first volume in a brand-new mystery series which introduces a gravedigger and young inspector who must stop a serial killer in fin de siecle Vienna—the period during which modern criminology was born. Vienna, 1893...

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.

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

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....

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....

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....

1486: Knittlingen ist ein ruhiger Ort im Kraichgau. Bis zu dem Tag, als die Gaukler in die Stadt kommen - und plötzlich Kinder verschwinden...

Die Henkerstochter auf der Spur einer landesweiten Verschwörung. Sommer 1679. Die Pest, die in Wien bereits Tausende Opfer gefordert hat...

1524. Die deutschen Lande werden von den Bauernkriegen zerrissen. Dem Adel droht der Verlust der Macht, dem Volk Hunger und Tod...

Der goldene Herbst 1518 neigt sich dem Ende. Sechs Jahre sind vergangen, seitdem der berühmte Magier Johann Georg Faustus aus Nürnberg...

Ein blutiges Ritual erschüttert das vornehme Wien des Jahres 1896: Bei einer vermeintlich satanistischen Messe wurde eine junge Frau bestialisch ermordet – ihre Kehle durchgeschnitten, Zunge und Herz fehlen.

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

1683: Das Reich ist in Gefahr, denn das osmanische Heer steht kurz vor Wien und ein vernichtender Krieg scheint unausweichlich. Auch um den alten Henker Jakob Kuisl steht es schlecht, körperliche Schmerzen und Sorgen plagen ihn. Umso erstaunter ist...