Die Hexengrfin

A compellingly told story about the life of a woman, by the author of ""The Chambermaid It is the year 1628. The mayors daughter, only eighteen years old, has been imprisoned. She is being badly tortured to make her admit to being a witch. Not even her friend, the counts daughter, can exert any influence in her favour. It is only at the last minute that she manages to escape. She finds shelter in a French nunnery. But even there her life is in danger. Weigand knows how to use excellently researched historical facts to tell a gripping story. Press PressOpinions Author Karla Weigand, born in 1944 in Munich, worked for twenty years as a teacher before turning to writing. She lives with her husband near Freiburg. The Witch Countess is her second historical novel.