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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
I like this series, probably more than I would without having the author's personal connection & dedicated research. Too many things, including this book, are telling me to learn more about the Knights Templar!
adventurous
dark
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Nothing against it! Just have other things I want to read more.
I have enjoyed the series so far. Waiting on the 3rd book from my library
Overall a nice follow up to the first novel. My only gripe is that his books never seem to end where they should. There is always 20 extra pages.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really enjoy this series. They are written by a German author & translated to English - which holds up very well. I am not familiar with the German landscape so the towns & villages don't mean much to me but it doesn't really matter. The mystery is great, I love the characters. The seemingly undesirable Hangman & his family are really the most complex & intelligent in the town! I look forward to Potzsch's next book - he plans several more in this series.
I didn't really read this book, but listened to it as an Audible Book. I read his first book "The Hangman's Daughter, and liked it. This has so many comings and goings that I hard time remembering who was who.
All in all, it was entertaining.
All in all, it was entertaining.
Loved listening to The Dark Monk, and thoroughly enjoyed my second visit to 1600's Bavaria. The characters are the same as in the first book, though slowly evolving . I enjoyed the plot twists---there are several story lines ---and the background history is great. I really love listening to the narrator, Grover Gardener.
'The Dark Monk' is the the scariest antagonist in this exciting mystery series so far! He means business. The dark monk is killing for god, well, also maybe a bit for his own sake, to tell the truth. It means a hot time is in store for Schongau's hangman, Jakob Kuisl, and his daughter, Magdalena!
In book two of the Hangman's Daughter series, Simon Fronwieser, town medicus, finds himself attracted to two women. Magdalena won his heart in the previous book, but he cannot marry her. As beautiful and excitingly tempestuous as she may be, she is of an unclean social class since her father is the hangman. According to the accepted mores of the time, 1660 Bavaria, Magdalena can marry another hangman only. However, a gorgeous rich widow, Benedikta Koppmeyer, has come to town to bury her murdered brother, the parish priest, Andreas Koppmeyer. She is a fair damsel in distress as far as Simon is concerned, so he accompanies her to St. Lawrence Church where her brother's body lies.
Why would someone poison the harmless priest? Clues left behind by Andreas soon point to something hidden 300 years ago by the Templars, a rich order of the knights during the Crusades! Full of hope, the Kuisls, the doctor and the widow decide to go treasure hunting. But after some serious attempts to kill them happen in separate incidents, always when monks in black seem to be slinking around, they know whatever the riddles left behind by the Templars mean, it is a dangerous hunt.
Meanwhile, Magdalena, has something even more of a concern to her than murderous monks - that pretty widow Benedikta has turned Simon's attentions away from Magdalena! If Jakob knew how jealous his daughter was feeling, he'd step in and calm things down, but the town clerk, Johann Lechner, has given the hangman an assignment and a demand. Hunt down robbers attacking merchant wagons and stop looking for clues to the priest's death! Has someone asked Lechner to derail the investigation?
Oh my. What is going on? FUN, that's what!
In book two of the Hangman's Daughter series, Simon Fronwieser, town medicus, finds himself attracted to two women. Magdalena won his heart in the previous book, but he cannot marry her. As beautiful and excitingly tempestuous as she may be, she is of an unclean social class since her father is the hangman. According to the accepted mores of the time, 1660 Bavaria, Magdalena can marry another hangman only. However, a gorgeous rich widow, Benedikta Koppmeyer, has come to town to bury her murdered brother, the parish priest, Andreas Koppmeyer. She is a fair damsel in distress as far as Simon is concerned, so he accompanies her to St. Lawrence Church where her brother's body lies.
Why would someone poison the harmless priest? Clues left behind by Andreas soon point to something hidden 300 years ago by the Templars, a rich order of the knights during the Crusades! Full of hope, the Kuisls, the doctor and the widow decide to go treasure hunting. But after some serious attempts to kill them happen in separate incidents, always when monks in black seem to be slinking around, they know whatever the riddles left behind by the Templars mean, it is a dangerous hunt.
Meanwhile, Magdalena, has something even more of a concern to her than murderous monks - that pretty widow Benedikta has turned Simon's attentions away from Magdalena! If Jakob knew how jealous his daughter was feeling, he'd step in and calm things down, but the town clerk, Johann Lechner, has given the hangman an assignment and a demand. Hunt down robbers attacking merchant wagons and stop looking for clues to the priest's death! Has someone asked Lechner to derail the investigation?
Oh my. What is going on? FUN, that's what!