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Old 08-01-2012, 12:26 PM   #13849
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Cool The Hangman's Daughter

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I'm reading The Hangman's Daughter. I'm 20% in and it is proving to be an excellent historical mystery so far. It is kind of refreshing that it is set in Germany, not Britain. Mostly these types of things are set in Britain. I really loved Ellis Peters' "Cadfael" books but had gone off the genre for some time. However, this book seems to be "sticking."

I finished The Land of Later On. It was alright. I thought The Brief History of the Dead was a better book set in the afterlife but I'm not sorry I read The Land of Later On.
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The Hangman's Daughter

The Hangman's Daughter is a novel by The Beggar King. The book gained readership in the United States when it was made part of the AmazonCrossing collection of translated work and offered as an inexpensive Kindle title.

Published: December 7, 2010
Original language: German
Genre: Historical novel
The Hangman's Daughter is on my TBAARE [To Be Acquired And Read Eventually] list along with The Beggar King and The Dark Monk both also in The Hangman's Daughter trilogy.

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