Darkness Rising
(Vienna Blood 4)
$24.25
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2009
Summary
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 Hasidic Jews. In a city riven by racial tensions and extremism, the situation is potentially explosive.
Detective Inspector Rheinhardt turns to his …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099519744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099519747 |
| Author: | Frank Tallis |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 291g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Vienna Blood |
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About The Author
Frank Tallis
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.
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