The Gravedigger’s Almanac: A Novel (Gravedigger, #1)

by Oliver Potzsch

Lisa Reinhardt (Translator)

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Hangman's Daughter returns with the first volume in a brand-new mystery series which introduces a gravedigger and young inspector who must stop a serial killer in fin de siecle Vienna—the period during which modern criminology was born.

Vienna, 1893. A gravedigger at the city’s famous Central Cemetery, Augustin Rothmayer is an unorthodox yet highly educated oddball who finds solace amongst the dead as well as in the writing the pages of the first almanac of his profession. But his fragile peace is abruptly disturbed when young inspector Leopold von Herzfeldt, an ambitious...

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  • ISBN10 0063348349
  • ISBN13 9780063348349
  • Publish Date 17 July 2025 (first published 27 May 2025)
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harpervia
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 416
  • Language English