Oliver Pötzsch

The Devil’s Pawn (Faust 2)

By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2021

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It’s 1518 in Europe, a time when kings are made, and the church wields spiritual as well as economic power. Johann Faust is ...Read Review

The Master’s Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend

By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2020

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Pötzsch’s popular Hangman’s Daughter series of historical mysteries has reached eight volumes, but the prolific author switches gears in this ...Read Review

The Council of Twelve (A Hangman’s Daughter Tale)

By Lisa Reinhardt (trans.) - By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2018

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Mystery/CrimeThriller

Oliver Pötzsch weaves a riveting, historical thriller against the backdrop of 1672 Bavaria. Hangman Jakob Kuisl’s family is swept into political intrigue, ...Read Review

Book of the Night: The Black Musketeers

By Lee Chadeayne (trans.) - By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2016

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AdventureChildren/Young Adult

In what is sure to be the first installment of a new series, Oliver Pötzsch takes readers on a wild adventure with ...Read Review

The Castle of Kings

By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

Germany, 1524. Agnes is the daughter of a castellan whose home is the former seat of the Holy Roman Empire, but now fallen into ...Read Review

The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman’s Daughter Tale

By Lee Chadeayne (trans.) - By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

It’s 1668, and the hangman of Schongau, Jakob Kuisl, and his daughters, Barbara and Magdalena; her husband, Simon; and their children are in ...Read Review

The Ludwig Conspiracy

By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2013

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Mystery/Crime

The enigmatic King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his fairytale castles are at the heart of this latest mystery by German author Oliver ...Read Review

The Dark Monk

By Lee Chadeayne (trans.) - By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2012

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Mystery/Crime

In the dead of winter in a 17th-century Bavarian village, a priest discovers he’s been poisoned. The village executioner, his headstrong daughter, ...Read Review

The Hangman’s Daughter

By Oliver Pötzsch - Published 2010

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Mystery/Crime

Germany in 1659 lay between the terrors of the wars of religion and the relative upswing of the Age of Reason, and this amazing ...Read Review