Oliver Potzsch - The Hangman's Daughter, An Awesome Suspense Thriller

Oliver Pötzsch, a great suspense thriller writer from Germany, has come up with a best-selling suspense fiction, The Hangman’s Daughter.



In earlier centuries, the expression „marrying the hangman’s daughter” was an euphemism of being executed. Oliver Pötzsch, coming from a line of actual hangmen, has written a dark novel about the era of the Inquisition. Do you remember Edgar Allan Poe’s writing The Pit and the Pendulum? Do you remember the film Torquemada, with the pallid Lance Henriksen? If you liked those, you would love this suspense thriller of witch hunting.
Somewhere in the 1600’s, in Bavaria, a woman is accused of witchcraft: more than one persons died, supposedly because of her dark magic. She is going to be executed soon. However, the lady is innocent. Jakob Kuisl, the town’s hangman, along with a couple of friends, try to find the real murderer…