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, […]