WITCH S TRINITY

No one escapes suspicion when a famine afflicts a medieval German village.Eager to identify a scapegoat, the starving residents of Tierkindorf fallunder the spell of an itinerant friar claiming to be able to extractconfessions of witchcraft from transgressors. When elderly Gude Mullerbegins to experience blackouts and confusing visions, her daughter-in-lawIrmeltrude seizes the opportunity to rid herself of the burden of herhusband's mother. In an ironic twist, the villagers turn not only on Gudebut on Irmeltrude as well. In searingly simple prose, Mailman probes thehuman psyche, peeling back the layers of the basest human instincts toexpose the dangerous frailties of the human soul. Flanagan, Margaret