Oliver Pötzsch

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.

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....

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

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.

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....

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

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

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

Vienna 1894. Augustin Rothmayer, the oddball gravedigger from Vienna’s Central Cemetery, is approached by Inspector Leopold von Herzfeldt with an unusual favor: he needs Augustin to teach him everything he knows about preserving a dead body, information vital to a new investigation.

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....

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....

Der Schongauer Henker Jakob Kuisl reist im Februar 1672 zum Scharfrichtertreffen nach München. Erstmals hat ihn der Rat der Zwölf dazu eingeladen...

Oliver Pötzsch: Der König des historischen Kriminalromans - Teil 2 der beliebten "Henker"-Saga. Ein vergifteter Pfarrer. Ein geheimnisvoller...

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

In Oberammergau herrscht kurz vor Pfingsten 1670 helle Aufregung. Bei den Proben zum berühmten Passionsspiel wird der Christus-Darsteller...

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....

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....

Tödliche Pilgerfahrt – ein neuer Fall für den beliebten Henker-Ermittler, seine Tochter Magdalena und den ganzen Kuisl-Clan. 1681: Trotz...

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...