Darkness Rising
  • Published: 15 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099519744
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

Darkness Rising

(Vienna Blood 4)

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1 Sep 2010
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15 Aug 2009
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The fourth in the Dr Max Liebermann series; literature's first psychoanalytic detective

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 trusted friend, the young psychoanalyst Doctor Max Liebermann, for assistance. As the investigation progresses, Liebermann is drawn into the world of Jewish mysticism. Amid the atmosphere of threat and fear, Liebermann's life is in crisis. Political forces conspire against him, and the object of his romantic desires, the unreachable Miss Lydgate, is becoming an unhealthy obsession...
  • Published: 15 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099519744
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99
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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.

Also by Frank Tallis

Death And The Maiden
Deadly Communion
Fatal Lies
Vienna Blood
Mortal Mischief
Love Sick
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Praise for Darkness Rising

beautifully written and extremely interesting

Literary Review

intelligent, intellectual, historical crime fiction at its very best

eurocrime.co.uk

... perhaps the most accomplished entry so far.

Independent

Scholarly and informative, cunningly put together - a real page-turner

Newbooks Magazine

Darkness Rising has a strong, intelligent plot and a terrific atmosphere of fin-de-siecle Vienna

The Times

fascinating

The Spectator

Whether you are an aficionado of fin-de-siècle Europe, compelling crime fiction or strong characterisation, Darkness Rising delivers healthy doses of all three

Express

a thoroughly compelling piece of work

Mail on Sunday

outstanding

Sunday Times

A most enjoyable read and, as usual, Vienna sparkles with atmosphere

The Times