Vienna Secrets: A Max Liebermann Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812980998)

In Freud's dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past.

On opposite sides of the city, two men are found beheaded on church grounds. Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt is baffled. Could the killer be mentally ill, someone the victims came into contact with? Some are even blaming the murders on the devil. But when psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann learns that both victims were vocal members of a shadowy anti-Semitic group, he turns his gaze to the city's close-knit Hasidic community. The doctor is drawn into an urban underworld that hosts and hides virulent racists on one side and followers of kabbalah on the other. And as the evidence--and bodies--pile up, Liebermann must reconsider his own path, the one that led him away from the miraculous and toward a life of the mind.

Author: Frank Tallis
ISBN-10: 0812980999
ISBN-13: 9780812980998
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2010
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.56w x 0.88d
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee
Award: Anthony Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/15/2009 pg. 86
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2009
Library Journal 01/15/2010 pg. 79
Publishers Weekly 02/01/2010 pg. 36
Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 44
New York Times Book Review 02/28/2010 pg. 22