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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409066101
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Mortal Mischief




'Holmes meets Freud in this enjoyable whodunnit' Guardian

The hit novels behind the major new TV series Vienna Blood
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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 to help with police investigations surrounding the death of a beautiful young medium, in what seems at first to be supernatural circumstances.

While Liebermann attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery, he also must decide whether he is to follow his father's advice and marry the beautiful but reserved Clara. But the personal and the professional cannot be wholly separated, and the darkness of Liebermann's case threatens to swallow his entire life.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409066101
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

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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Praise for Mortal Mischief

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

Oliver James

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

Smart detection and a mouthwatering view of Viennese cafe society ... good prospects for the Liebermann series, of which this is book number one

Literary Review