Mortal Mischief by Frank Tallis - ISBN: 9780099471288
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Vienna, secrets, and psychoanalysis collide in a deadly turn-of-the-century mystery.

Mortal Mischief

(Liebermann Papers 1)

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  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    3 April 2006

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Summary

Vienna, at the turn of the century. Philosophy, science and art are flourishing. Coffee shops are full of the latest cultural and political theories. The new field of psychoanalysis, formed in the wake of Freud, is just beginning to make itself heard.

And a woman is dead.

Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst, and friend to Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt. Rheinhardt, though hard-working, lacks Liebermann’s insights and forensic eye - and so Liebermann is called upon…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099471288
ISBN-10:0099471280
Author:Frank Tallis
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:3 April 2006
Weight:330g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 28mm
Series:Vienna Blood
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Critics Review

An intriguing, impressive achievement - puts the psychological back into crime and written by a real expert

An intriguing, impressive achievement - puts the psychological back into crime and written by a real expert – Oliver JamesSmart detection and a mouthwatering view of Viennese cafe society … good prospects for the Liebermann series, of which this is book number one * Literary Review *An unusual and excellent murder mystery * Bernard Knight, former home office pathologist *Frank Tallis’s new max Liebermann series is off to a flying start with its location, a turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna torn between mysticism and rationalism, liberalism and anti-Semitism… a cracker. * Observer *

About The Author

Frank Tallis

Frank Tallis is a writer and practising clinical psychologist in Harley Street. In 1999 he received a Writers’ Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain and in 2000 he won the New London Writers’ Award (London Arts Board). Love Sick is also published by Century. Frank lives and works in London.

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