Before They Are Hanged

If I had to assign a fault to this second volume of the trilogy, it is that the flow of time is not well managed. One gets the impression that days pass when weeks pass, if not more. The result is that everything seems to take place at the same time.
Otherwise, excellent worldbuilding, good concatenation of events, skillful use of the supernatural-an important but not preponderant element.
An episode as hard and raw as the previous one, in which the most honorable of the characters is a sadistic torturer and the most loyal a murderous psychopath.... But it fits. It's a hard, tough world, where going soft means dying or worse.
Never expect a happy ending, here!