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    The Poisoned Pilgrim
    The Poisoned Pilgrim
    The Poisoned Pilgrim
    Audiobook16 hours

    The Poisoned Pilgrim

    Written by Oliver Pötzsch

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Poisoned Pilgrim is the fourth book in Hangman’s Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.

    1666: The monastery at Andechs has long been a pilgrimage destination, but when the hangman’s daughter, Magdalena, her doctor husband Simon, and their two small children arrive there, they learn that the monks have far larger concerns than saying Mass and receiving alms. It seems that once again, the hangman’s family has fallen into a mysterious and dangerous adventure.

    Two monks at the monastery experiment with cutting-edge technology, including a method of deflecting the lighting that has previously set the monastery ablaze. When one of the monks disappears and his lab is destroyed, foul play is suspected. Who better to investigate than the famed hangman Jakob Kuisl? But as the hangman and his family attempt to solve the mystery of the missing monk, they must deal with both the eccentric denizens of the monastery and villagers who view the monks’ inventions as witchcraft that must be destroyed at all costs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Translator Lee Chadeayne
    Release dateJul 16, 2013
    ISBN9781455876464
    The Poisoned Pilgrim
    Author

    Oliver Pötzsch

    OLIVER PÖTZSCH, born in 1970, has worked for years as a scriptwriter for Bavarian television, and is the New York Times bestselling author of The Hangman's Daughter series. A descendant of one of Bavaria's leading dynasties of executioners, Pötzsch lives in Munich with his family.

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    • 5/5
      It has wonderful unique characters . It's not your typical mystery.
    • 4/5
      3.5 starsThis is book 4 of the series. Jakob is the hangman in a small town in Bavaria; Magdalena is his adult daughter. She married “above her station” to the local doctor, Simon, and they have two young sons. Magdalena and Simon have gone to the next town over on a pilgrimage. They are at a monastery when two murdered monks are discovered and a third has disappeared along with an automaton one of the monks had been working on. Jakob comes to help find out what’s going on. I quite enjoyed this installment of the series. I hate when I’m not sure how to rate something, though. 3.5 is good, and that’s how I felt through most of the book. I never lost interest in the almost 500-page book, but at the same time, it wasn’t really a “page-turner”, either. Boy, the number of times everyone seemed to insult others, though! I still enjoyed it enough, though, to continue with the series.
    • 4/5
      Good but gosh Magdalena and Simon's marriage is annoying. Magdalena's a useless nag. And why did those KIDS have to pop up so suddenly in the stories? UGH
    • 5/5
      Still enjoying the characters and the time period of this series.

      The series idea came from the real life hangman in the author's ancestry.
    • 2/5
      Ohhhhh - I was sooooo disappointed. 4th in a series and now´s it become super formulaic. It would have been okay had its editor had a firmer hand, but it was about 100 pages too long. :(
    • 4/5
      Still good, but almost becoming a bit formulaic.