✍ Scribed by Pötzsch, Oliver
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### From Publishers Weekly The brutality and ignorance of 17th-century Bavaria serves as the backdrop for Pötzsch's thrilling second whodunit featuring an unlikely trio of sleuths (after 2011's *The Hangman's Daughter*). When the parish priest, Andreas Koppmeyer, eats some poisoned doughnuts after