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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Read 200 of the 500 pages and gave up. The characters were not at all appealing to me and, at least in translation, speech was sometimes annoyingly modern. ( ) 3.5 stars This 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. no reviews | add a review
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In 1666, Magdalena, the hangman's daughter, and her physician husband arrive at Andechs Abbey where they, along with Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of Schongau, set out to find the mysterious Brother Virgilius, a monk, watchmaker and inventor who disappeared after creating an eerie automata. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)833.92Literature German and related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1990-LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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