The Dark Monk
The Hangman's Daughter: Book #2
- By: Oliver Pötzsch & Lee Chadeayne
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Description
1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring that every farmer and servant is indoors 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 physician’s son team up with the priest’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 they’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 made sure he is tasked with capturing a band of thieves roving the countryside, attacking solitary travelers and spreading panic.
Delivering on the promise of the international bestseller The Hangman’s Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch takes us on a whirlwind tour through the occult hiding places of Bavaria’s ancient monasteries. Once again based on prodigious historical research into Pötzsch’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.
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The Hangman's Daughter Series

The Dark Monk
By: Oliver Pötzsch & Lee Chadeayne
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring that every farmer and servant is indoors 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... Read more »
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The Poisoned Pilgrim
By: Oliver Pötzsch & Lee Chadeayne
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 16 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
1666: The monastery at Andrechs 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... Read more »
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The Werewolf of Bamberg
By: Oliver Pötzsch & Lee Chadeayne
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 20 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The thrilling fifth entry in Oliver Pötzsch's bestselling Hangman's Daughter series.
In 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon are traveling to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare: there is a murderer in Bamberg leaving the severed limbs of victims in the trash... Read more »
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The Play of Death
By: Oliver Pötzsch & Lee Chadeayne
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 17 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Play of Death is the sixth book in Hangman’s Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.
It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man who was to play the part of Christ in the town’s Passion... Read more »
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