Book description
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.
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.
