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Published Feb 2009
448 pages
Genre: Mysteries
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A dogged police inspector and an insightful young psychiatrist match wits with depraved criminal minds in this acclaimed mystery series set in Freud’s Vienna.
In glittering turn-of-the-century Vienna, brutal instinct and refined intellect fight for supremacy. The latest, most disturbing example: the mysterious and savage death of a young cadet in the most elite of military academies, St. Florian’s. Even using his cutting-edge investigative techniques, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt cannot crack the school’s closed and sadistic world. He must again enlist the aid of his frequent ally, Dr. Max Liebermann, an expert in Freudian psychology. But how can Liebermann help when he a crisis of his own: handling his conflicted and forbidden feelings for two different women, one a former patient? As the case unfolds, powerful forces will stop at nothing to keep a dark secret.
"Starred Review. St. Florian's Military Academy outside Vienna serves as the forbidding backdrop for Tallis's stellar third historical to feature Insp. Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann." - Publishers Weekly.
"On balance, an absorbing historical novel first and a mystery second." - Kirkus Reviews.
"Starred Review. Tallis has crafted an intricate, taut, and compelling plot, with an ending that is as shocking as it is inevitable." - Booklist.
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Dr. Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing
posts in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry and
King's College, London.
He has written self help manuals (How to Stop Worrying, Understanding
Obsessions and Compulsions) non-fiction for the general reader (Changing
Minds, Hidden Minds, Love Sick), academic text books and over
thirty academic papers in international journals.
Dr. Tallis' novels are: The Forbidden, The Sleep Room, Killing Time, Sensing Others, Mortal
Mischief (published in the USA as A Death in Vienna), Vienna Blood,
Fatal Lies and Darkness Rising. The last four form the first four
volumes of the Liebermann Papers series.
In 1999 he received a Writers' Award from the Arts Council of ...
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