A Death in Vienna (Paperback) by Dr. Frank Tallis

from kewing

I started reading A Death in Vienna while in Vienna and enjoyed the local color (despite lapses in spelling). The climax was more than a bit clichèd, but I appreciated the fin de siècle ambiance and attitudes surrounding the mystery and mediums. The pairing of old-school Inspector Reinhardt with ...

from ChazziFrazz

Vienna, 1902, the center of music, literature and the new science of the human mind.A brutal murder of a medium rocks the cultured world. Found dead in her home in a locked room, with a hold in her chest but no weapon or bullet found to determine what killed her. No fingerprints or clues are appa...

from Hatsepshut

The first volume of the Liebermann Papers. Told by dr Liebermann - a young Vienna doctor facinated by the new ideas of dr Freud, assisting his good friend Inspector Reinhardt of the Vienna Security Office. A well crafted crime whodunnit taking place around the turn of the century (1900). What mak...

from aadyer

A very good introduction to what promises to be a great detective/psychological thriller series. Vienna at the turn of the century and it's hot bed of new theories of the mind is very evocative. Good characterisation,and not predictable at all. Recommended, some what slow in the last third though

from bcquinnsmom

Set in fin-de-siecle Vienna, as the story opens, a medium is found dead in her home under strange circumstances, none the least of which include a room locked from the inside and no bullet in her body (with no exit wound) even though she was clearly shot. At first it looks like suicide, from a no...