Oliver PÃ¶tzsch,Lee Chadeayne
1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors on the night a parish priest discovers he's been poisoned. As numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his strength to scratch a cryptic sign in the frost.,Following a trail of riddles, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his headstrong daughter, Magdalena, and the town physicianâ€™s son team up with the priestâ€™s aristocratic sister to investigate. What they uncover will lead them back to the Crusades, unlocking a troubled history of internal church politics and sending them on a chase for a treasure of the Knights Templar.,But theyâ€™re not the only ones after the legendary fortune. A team of dangerous and mysterious monks is always close behind, tracking their every move, speaking Latin in the shadows, giving off a strange, intoxicating scent. And to throw the hangman off their trail, they have ensured he is tasked with capturing a band of thieves roving the countryside attacking solitary travellers and spreading panic.,Delivering on the promise of the international bestseller ,The Hangmanâ€™s Daughter,, Oliver PÃ¶tzsch takes us on a whirlwind tour through the occult hiding places of Bavariaâ€™s ancient monasteries. Once again based on prodigious historical research into PÃ¶tzschâ€™s family tree, ,The Dark Monk, brings to life an unforgettable, compassionate hangman and his tenacious daughter, painting a robust tableau of a seventeenth-century Bavaria and quickening our pulses with a gripping, mesmerizing mystery
Historical,Historical Fiction,Mystery,Fiction,Historical,Thriller,Thriller,Mystery Thriller,Cultural,Germany,Mystery,Historical Mystery,Mystery,Crime,Literature,17th Century
The Dark Monk