Book description
A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna. The
killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon,
his deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age.
Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend,
psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann, for assistance. But to understand
the killer's behaviour, Liebermann must make a journey into uncharted
regions of the human mind, tracking a monster whose modus operandi
combines both exquisite precision and savage cruelty.
As the investigation continues, Liebermann and Rheinhardt find
themselves drawn into the worlds of art and couture, worlds in which
glamorous appearances mask the most sinister of secrets...
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,
Fatal Lies
in 2008 and
Darkness Rising in 2009,
all to great acclaim. Titles in the Liebermann series have been
translated into fourteen languages.
