It has taken me a while to figure out how I wanted to review this book. I actually read a whole other book while trying to figure out how I really felt about it. The main thing that my deliberations came down to was that it is a very good book… It just wasn’t really the book I was looking for when I started it. Based on the title and they synopsis blurb I was under the impression this was a story where the titular […]
The Story is More about the Hangman Than His Daughter
I don’t know why you title your book The Hangman’s Daughter and then make the main character the hangman, but that’s what happened here. It didn’t ruin the book for me, but every time the daughter appeared, I got my Nancy Drew on and combed the pages for clues, because, surely, as the titular character, something about her must be the key to this murder mystery. That was not the case. A bit about hangmen in the 1600s: Jakob Kuisl, the hangman in our story, […]