Darkness Rising: (Vienna Blood 4)

Darkness Rising: (Vienna Blood 4)

by Frank Tallis (Author)

Synopsis

Vienna 1903. Outside one of the city's most splendid baroque churches the decapitated body of a monk is found. Then, the remains of a municipal councillor are discovered in the grounds of another church - his head also ripped from his body. Both men were rabid anti-Semites and suspicions fall on Vienna's close-knit community of Hassidic Jews. In a city riven by racial tensions and extremism, the situation is potentially explosive. Detective Inspector Rheinhardt turns to his trusted friend, the young psychoanalyst Doctor Max Liebermann, for assistance. As the investigation progresses, Liebermann is drawn into the world of Jewish mysticism. Amid the atmosphere of threat and fear, Liebermann's life is in crisis. Political forces conspire against him, and the object of his romantic desires, the unreachable Miss Lydgate, is becoming an unhealthy obsession.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: PROOF
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 06 Aug 2009

ISBN 10: 0099519747
ISBN 13: 9780099519744
Book Overview: The fourth in the Dr Max Liebermann series; literature's first psychoanalytic detective

Media Reviews
beautifully written and extremely interesting * Literary Review *
intelligent, intellectual, historical crime fiction at its very best * eurocrime.co.uk *
... perhaps the most accomplished entry so far. * Independent *
Scholarly and informative, cunningly put together - a real page-turner * Newbooks Magazine *
Darkness Rising has a strong, intelligent plot and a terrific atmosphere of fin-de-siecle Vienna * The Times *
Author Bio
Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. In 1999 he received a Writers' Award from the Arts Council and in 2000 he won the New London Writers' Award. Mortal Mischief was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award in 2005 and for the prestigious Quais du Polar award in France, 2007. Vienna Blood was published in 2006 and Fatal Lies in 2007, both to great acclaim. Titles in the Liebermann series have been translated into fourteen languages.