A bold new thriller from the best-selling author of The Hangmans Daughter series
In 1886, Ludwig II, the Fairy-tale King of Bavaria, was deposed after being declared insane by doctors who had never met him. He died mysteriously soon thereafter, his eccentric and beautiful castles his only legacy. In The Ludwig Conspiracy, master of historical suspense Oliver Pötzsch brings the Mad King back to life.
An encoded diary by one of Ludwigs confidants falls into the hands of modern-day rare-book dealer Steven Lukas, who soon realizes that the diary may bring him more misery than money. Lukas teams up with a beautiful art detective, Sara Lengfeld, to investigate each of Ludwigs three famous castles for clues to crack the diarys code as mysterious thugs and Ludwigs fanatical followers chase them at every step. Just what in the diary could be so explosive?
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Oliver Pötzsch (1970) es uno de los autores de ficción histórica más leídos de Alemania. Periodista de formación, escribió guiones televisivos antes de dedicarse plenamente a la escritura. Desciende de los Kuisl, una de las principales dinastías de verdugos del país entre los siglos XVI-XIX, que le sirvió de inspiración para escribir su primera novela, La hija del verdugo, un bestseller en más de veinte países. Con El libro del sepulturero y su continuación, El sepulturero y la Tierra Negra, inició su nueva y exitosa serie de thrillers históricos que viajan a los primeros días de la investigación forense.