Tuesday, July 1, 2014

August 2014 Book Selection

Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday August 5, 2014 at 7:00 pm as we discuss The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch. This is the first book in his Hangman's Daughter series.
The book summary is "Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of Bavarian hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her father outside the village walls and is destined to be married off to another hangman's son--except that the town's physician's son is hopelessly in love with her. And her father's wisdom and empath are as unusual as his despised profession. It is 1659, the Thirty Years' War has finally ended, and there hasn't been a witchcraft mania in decades. But now, a drowning and gruesomely injured boy, tattooed with the mark of a witch, is pulled from a river and the villagers suspect the local midwife, Martha Stechlin. Jakob Kuisl is charged with extracting a confession from her and torturing her until he gets one. Convinced she is innocent, he, Magdalena, and her would-be suitor race against the clock to find the true killer." The author has based the characters and events in the book on his own family's history.