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Liebermann Papers #5
Rendezvous mit dem Tod
Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt finds that young women are being slain in an unnerving—and ingenious—manner, with a small, almost undetectable, hat pin. For Dr. Max Liebermann, the killer is unique in the annals of psychopathology, one who murders in the midst of consensual love. Is the culprit a patient, one who swears he has a double, a shadow figure that is far more forward (in fact, indecent) with women? As danger mounts, Liebermann must find the answer while struggling with his own forbidden desire for a former female patient.
416 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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Frank Tallis
46 books395 followersAka F.R. Tallis.
Dr. Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing posts in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College, London. He has written self help manuals (How to Stop Worrying, Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions) non-fiction for the general reader (Changing Minds, Hidden Minds, Love Sick), academic text books and over thirty academic papers in international journals. Frank Tallis' novels are: KILLING TIME (Penguin), SENSING OTHERS (Penguin), MORTAL MISCHIEF (Arrow), VIENNA BLOOD (Arrow), FATAL LIES (Arrow), and DARKNESS RISING (Arrow). The fifth volume of the Liebermann Papers, DEADLY COMMUNION, will be published in 2010. 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). In 2005 MORTAL MISCHIEF was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.
Dr. Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing posts in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College, London. He has written self help manuals (How to Stop Worrying, Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions) non-fiction for the general reader (Changing Minds, Hidden Minds, Love Sick), academic text books and over thirty academic papers in international journals. Frank Tallis' novels are: KILLING TIME (Penguin), SENSING OTHERS (Penguin), MORTAL MISCHIEF (Arrow), VIENNA BLOOD (Arrow), FATAL LIES (Arrow), and DARKNESS RISING (Arrow). The fifth volume of the Liebermann Papers, DEADLY COMMUNION, will be published in 2010. 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). In 2005 MORTAL MISCHIEF was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.
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December 10, 2023
“He was humming the Andante con moto, from Schubert’s B-flat Piano Trio”
Did you enjoy the pairing of gay LAPD detective Milo Sturgis with psychologist Alex Delaware when they debuted in 1985 in Jonathan Kellerman’s best-selling thriller, WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS? Do you enjoy a clever police procedural, soiled with a bit of grit and grime or even a touch of sleaze, but with a plot that is a little more linear than the typical byzantine, tortuous path plowed by today’s best-selling suspense thrillers? Do you enjoy historical fiction that lifts you out of today’s tiresome here and now, transports you, and drops you into the centre of the sights and sounds or smells and tastes of another place, another time, perhaps even another country or culture? Do you enjoy a novel that eschews that slam-bang action pace of today’s modern novels and unfolds the story with more cerebral dialogue and carefully constructed, evocative scenery and atmosphere? Do you enjoy the occasional detour of a slight touch of pedagogy when an author ventures into the realm of informational side-bars and essays on topics of interest related to the main story?
Then it’s a sure bet that VIENNA TWILIGHT, the 5th entry in Frank Tallis’s successful Max Liebermann and Oskar Reinhardt series, set in fin-de-siècle Secessionist Vienna, will be right in your wheelhouse. Gustav Mahler is the director of the Vienna Court Opera and the cultured population of music mad Vienna walks the streets humming melodies composed by the rock stars of the day - Schumann, Schubert, Liszt, Beethoven and Wagner. The popular and somewhat erotic art of Gustav Klimt at the forefront of the Secessionist movement is the talk of the town in the coffee houses that are the place to see and to be seen. The magnificent facades of art nouveau architecture dominate the Viennese streetscape.
Even so, in the midst of all of this beauty, culture and sweetness, murder stalks the unwitting ladies who stroll the boulevards.
For a significant part of the novel, three concurrent story lines seem to be shoehorned together and unrelated to one another. The first is Reinhardt’s desperate search for a serial murderer whose freakish MO involves dispatching his victims by driving a hatpin through the base of their skull and directly into the brain during the heat of consensual sex. The second is Liebermann’s psychoanalysis of a deeply disturbed patient who is convinced that he is going to die at any moment because he has seen his doppelgänger. The final story tells of a talented artist who daubs nude paintings and drawings of underage girls in compromising, revealing positions. He sells them to wealthy clients – well, there really is only one word for it – wealthy pedophiles who in today’s words would be characterized as buying child pornography. But, fear not. The three skeins are ultimately woven together into a clever, complete whole and not a single thread is left dangling for even the most pedantic reader to cavil at.
People who like a little extra dollop of realism in their historical fiction will particularly enjoy a handful of cameo appearances by maestro Sigmund Freud himself as Liebermann consults with him on matters of the psycho-analysis of dreams, sexual perversions and how a mere mental disturbance over time may mutate into a full blown psychopathology.
Highly recommended. (And do NOT read this book when you are hungry. The descriptions of the Viennese pastries, cakes and desserts will drive you wild!)
Paul Weiss
Did you enjoy the pairing of gay LAPD detective Milo Sturgis with psychologist Alex Delaware when they debuted in 1985 in Jonathan Kellerman’s best-selling thriller, WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS? Do you enjoy a clever police procedural, soiled with a bit of grit and grime or even a touch of sleaze, but with a plot that is a little more linear than the typical byzantine, tortuous path plowed by today’s best-selling suspense thrillers? Do you enjoy historical fiction that lifts you out of today’s tiresome here and now, transports you, and drops you into the centre of the sights and sounds or smells and tastes of another place, another time, perhaps even another country or culture? Do you enjoy a novel that eschews that slam-bang action pace of today’s modern novels and unfolds the story with more cerebral dialogue and carefully constructed, evocative scenery and atmosphere? Do you enjoy the occasional detour of a slight touch of pedagogy when an author ventures into the realm of informational side-bars and essays on topics of interest related to the main story?
Then it’s a sure bet that VIENNA TWILIGHT, the 5th entry in Frank Tallis’s successful Max Liebermann and Oskar Reinhardt series, set in fin-de-siècle Secessionist Vienna, will be right in your wheelhouse. Gustav Mahler is the director of the Vienna Court Opera and the cultured population of music mad Vienna walks the streets humming melodies composed by the rock stars of the day - Schumann, Schubert, Liszt, Beethoven and Wagner. The popular and somewhat erotic art of Gustav Klimt at the forefront of the Secessionist movement is the talk of the town in the coffee houses that are the place to see and to be seen. The magnificent facades of art nouveau architecture dominate the Viennese streetscape.
Even so, in the midst of all of this beauty, culture and sweetness, murder stalks the unwitting ladies who stroll the boulevards.
For a significant part of the novel, three concurrent story lines seem to be shoehorned together and unrelated to one another. The first is Reinhardt’s desperate search for a serial murderer whose freakish MO involves dispatching his victims by driving a hatpin through the base of their skull and directly into the brain during the heat of consensual sex. The second is Liebermann’s psychoanalysis of a deeply disturbed patient who is convinced that he is going to die at any moment because he has seen his doppelgänger. The final story tells of a talented artist who daubs nude paintings and drawings of underage girls in compromising, revealing positions. He sells them to wealthy clients – well, there really is only one word for it – wealthy pedophiles who in today’s words would be characterized as buying child pornography. But, fear not. The three skeins are ultimately woven together into a clever, complete whole and not a single thread is left dangling for even the most pedantic reader to cavil at.
People who like a little extra dollop of realism in their historical fiction will particularly enjoy a handful of cameo appearances by maestro Sigmund Freud himself as Liebermann consults with him on matters of the psycho-analysis of dreams, sexual perversions and how a mere mental disturbance over time may mutate into a full blown psychopathology.
Highly recommended. (And do NOT read this book when you are hungry. The descriptions of the Viennese pastries, cakes and desserts will drive you wild!)
Paul Weiss
February 25, 2022
Max and Oskar solve a series of murders--not all by the same person, but several with an ingenious weapon: a hatpin inserted at the base of the brain. Interesting how the author wove together the various strands of the plot through his mixture of police work and psychology in this complex story and how all strands came together. Sometimes the psychoanalytical angle was a bit above me though.
May 20, 2010
Probably the best to date in this series. It was a complex plot that wove together aspects of psychology, criminal investigation and philosophy.
As before there are strong characterizations and beleievable development.
Tallis creates a powerful sense of turn-of-the-century Vienna, celebrating the culture yet also pointing out the dark undercurrents.
I love the descriptions of the rich desserts that they indulge in, but it is a kind of torture too.
As before there are strong characterizations and beleievable development.
Tallis creates a powerful sense of turn-of-the-century Vienna, celebrating the culture yet also pointing out the dark undercurrents.
I love the descriptions of the rich desserts that they indulge in, but it is a kind of torture too.
March 26, 2020
Not sure if anyone is reading my reviews, but I have read all the mysteries including this one and have already started Death and the Maiden. Just want to let you know that if three stars seems low, for me it is not. I use two stars to indicate a book I don't like, and one star to use a book I loathe. Three for me means a book I enjoyed very much. Four stars I reserve only for favorite books (I'm 73 years old and have read very many) and five stars only for the creme de la creme.
I continue to enjoy this series. Most of the books end with one, often two murderers put away. In this one Liebermann and Reinhardt identify and bring to justice a third as well...or do they? Sorry to keep you in suspense.
The two men also continue their private musical soirees - and I mean private, just the two of themL Liebermann on the piano, Reinhardt singing, after which they retire to another room for drinks and discussion of music, psychiatry and the progress of the latest case or cases they are trying to solve.
The intriguing plot line of Liebermann reltionship with his one time patient, the brilliant and enigmatic Englishwoman, Amelia Lydgate - what sort of relationship IS this, and what will come of it?
And the author continues his writing, a good cut above many other mystery writers, as well as his love affair with Vienna in general and the excellent pastries the city's chefs are capable of concocting. Enjoy it if you like. I did.
I continue to enjoy this series. Most of the books end with one, often two murderers put away. In this one Liebermann and Reinhardt identify and bring to justice a third as well...or do they? Sorry to keep you in suspense.
The two men also continue their private musical soirees - and I mean private, just the two of themL Liebermann on the piano, Reinhardt singing, after which they retire to another room for drinks and discussion of music, psychiatry and the progress of the latest case or cases they are trying to solve.
The intriguing plot line of Liebermann reltionship with his one time patient, the brilliant and enigmatic Englishwoman, Amelia Lydgate - what sort of relationship IS this, and what will come of it?
And the author continues his writing, a good cut above many other mystery writers, as well as his love affair with Vienna in general and the excellent pastries the city's chefs are capable of concocting. Enjoy it if you like. I did.
January 28, 2023
Now I've read the reviews, and it seems everyone likes this series. However, I just don't. First, their love of music seems artificial. I just feel the author showing off his musical knowledge and not very subtly. Second, their descriptions of food & the pleasure they get from it is over done. It also irritated me when the two men went to the opera & left the wife at home. Ugh! Just not my cup of tea.
March 21, 2022
This is the first entry in the series that I've not watched a corresponding episode for, and I can kind of see why the TV series steered away from adapting this one. It's easily the most disturbing and graphic one so far, but it's really well done and interesting. Good combination of evocative setting and thought-provoking mystery.
July 26, 2022
Great historical fiction series!
April 15, 2016
This was book of the month for my book group recently. It is not a book that I would have picked up of my own accord. The author is a British writer and clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing posts in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College, London. Although he has written several self-help manuals, Deadly Communion is the fifth book in a series featuring a psychoanalyst, Dr. Max Liebermann. I do not intend to read more of the series.
This book is a murder mystery, a genre I usually enjoy, but I suppose there are always exceptions. The book is set in Vienna, Austria at the beginning of the 20th Century. Liebermann and a detective, Oskar Reinhardt battle to catch the criminals who commit the most clever and brutal murders.
Detective Inspector Reinhardt finds that young women are being murdered in an ingenious manner, with a small hat pin. This leaves an almost undetectable mark. Dr. Max Liebermann finds the killer is unique in his experience of psychopathology.
The killer is a person who murders in the midst of consensual sex. The descriptions of the way the women's bodies are left and of the postmortems are disgusting. They are far more explicit than is necessary, as if the writer enjoyed the graphic descriptions.Liebermann must find murderer while struggling with his own forbidden desire for a female patient.
There were some good descriptions of old Vienna. Tallis also offers his reader some excellent descriptions of cafe life, coffee and cakes savoured by Rheinhardt. However, sadly the story owed more to the author's pschological training than to the art of literature. It was gaudy and gorey. I will not seek out more works by Dr. Frank Tallis and do not recommend Deadly Communion.
Valerie Penny
This book is a murder mystery, a genre I usually enjoy, but I suppose there are always exceptions. The book is set in Vienna, Austria at the beginning of the 20th Century. Liebermann and a detective, Oskar Reinhardt battle to catch the criminals who commit the most clever and brutal murders.
Detective Inspector Reinhardt finds that young women are being murdered in an ingenious manner, with a small hat pin. This leaves an almost undetectable mark. Dr. Max Liebermann finds the killer is unique in his experience of psychopathology.
The killer is a person who murders in the midst of consensual sex. The descriptions of the way the women's bodies are left and of the postmortems are disgusting. They are far more explicit than is necessary, as if the writer enjoyed the graphic descriptions.Liebermann must find murderer while struggling with his own forbidden desire for a female patient.
There were some good descriptions of old Vienna. Tallis also offers his reader some excellent descriptions of cafe life, coffee and cakes savoured by Rheinhardt. However, sadly the story owed more to the author's pschological training than to the art of literature. It was gaudy and gorey. I will not seek out more works by Dr. Frank Tallis and do not recommend Deadly Communion.
Valerie Penny
October 12, 2016
Do not read this book!!! I am sincerely bewildered how this got so many stars on Goodreads. Every once in a while I come across and book that is so disturbing I have to quit. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was the worst. This is in my top five.
Without going into what the book is actually about (go read other reviews) I will tell you this: the murdered females in this book are described too sexually during their autopsies. This is not normal. I have read books that go into detail and it's purely scientific and anatomical. This author likes to focus on the genitalia in particular and it's creepy. I feel like a perv just reading it. The detective in the story also finds himself slightly aroused by the corpse of first victim during her autopsy. Really?! How weird and gross and abnormal is that? Based on those facts alone I had to quit the book. None of the writing merits dredging through such grossness either. Don't waste your time. And a note to the author: leave the sexuality of the dead alone. It's gross.
Without going into what the book is actually about (go read other reviews) I will tell you this: the murdered females in this book are described too sexually during their autopsies. This is not normal. I have read books that go into detail and it's purely scientific and anatomical. This author likes to focus on the genitalia in particular and it's creepy. I feel like a perv just reading it. The detective in the story also finds himself slightly aroused by the corpse of first victim during her autopsy. Really?! How weird and gross and abnormal is that? Based on those facts alone I had to quit the book. None of the writing merits dredging through such grossness either. Don't waste your time. And a note to the author: leave the sexuality of the dead alone. It's gross.
November 10, 2012
Viennese decadence on full display, beginning with an eerie murder using a hatpin, continues and involves a gritty subplot ranging from pornographic drawings to Secessionist fashion design. This is almost as well-plotted as Fatal Lies, but is not quite as involving. The Zentralfriedhof (main cemetery) in Vienna is actually larger than the entire Innere Stadt, and this fact is used in the novel to support the Viennese obsession with sex and death. So far, this is the eerie-est of Tallis's series, featuring a murderer whose attenuated humanity is profoundly disturbing and another whose motives are more understandable. The Freudian milieu thickens, as does Inspector Rheinhardt's waistline -- he is CONSTANTLY eating pastries in this book. And unfortunately, they sound delicious. Gotta go have something to eat...
October 9, 2021
I loved this book. The novels set in the early 1900's, in VIenna. There are historical data about women's fashions, the history of medicine, psychoanalysis, art, desserts from Viennese bakeries, foundations of the forensic science, the early concept of "profiling" criminals, it's all here beautiful written. I loved Tallis language.
The protagonist, Max Liebermann is a psychiatrist during the early years of psychoanalysis in Vienna. Freud too has a small role in the novel as doctor to consult on a difficult cases.
Liebermann with friend and colleague Inspector Reinhardt investigate a series of twisted cases of murders of young women. There are some interesting insights into the murder's psyche as well.
Only problem was I found weaknesses in the plot, like it ended too soon. May be it's because this is a part of a series.
The protagonist, Max Liebermann is a psychiatrist during the early years of psychoanalysis in Vienna. Freud too has a small role in the novel as doctor to consult on a difficult cases.
Liebermann with friend and colleague Inspector Reinhardt investigate a series of twisted cases of murders of young women. There are some interesting insights into the murder's psyche as well.
Only problem was I found weaknesses in the plot, like it ended too soon. May be it's because this is a part of a series.
April 26, 2011
Another great addition to this series of 1900s Vienna. Psychiatrist Max Liebermann and his detective friend Oskar Rheinhardt this time out investigate a series of murders committed in the throes of passion. Young women (no better than they ought to be) are murdered by having a hat pin pushed into their skull right at the height of passion. Liebermann's very Freudian profiling of the murderer helps Rheinhardt solve the case. As always there are many opportunities to stop for coffee and pastry, each one lovingly described. I also get an urge to listen to German art lieder when reading this series.
October 12, 2025
Vienna Twilight is the alternative title.
I was bored with Max's client Herr Erstweiler but I liked the investigation into the hat pin murders.
I was glad when Oscar sought justice at the end with Rainmayr.
These stories continue to be well written with amazing detail into historic Vienna.
I only have a few more in the series and then I will be looking for more similar stories.
I borrowed a copy from the public library.
I was bored with Max's client Herr Erstweiler but I liked the investigation into the hat pin murders.
I was glad when Oscar sought justice at the end with Rainmayr.
These stories continue to be well written with amazing detail into historic Vienna.
I only have a few more in the series and then I will be looking for more similar stories.
I borrowed a copy from the public library.
November 6, 2011
Maybe I need to read these in order. Did find it hard to believe that as intelligent as the two main characters were they would miss certain things that I spotted.
There was also the moral aspect that I found difficult to believe and in particular Reinhardt's reaction.
That said I did enjoy the journey and will be looking out for more.
There was also the moral aspect that I found difficult to believe and in particular Reinhardt's reaction.
That said I did enjoy the journey and will be looking out for more.
June 23, 2011
Enjoy these mysteries set in Vienna in the early 1900's, the beginnings of psychoanalysis and the hey dey of Freud. Interesting characters and historical data about women's fashions and their beginnings into the medical fields. The description of the pastries are out of this world.
December 25, 2018
A bit darker and seedier than the usual Liebermann cases. The book's theme of love & death unfortunately make both Liebermann & Reinhardt out to be a pair of creepos. The pastries remain delicious though.
May 16, 2020
Too violent
September 1, 2018
Frank Tallis offers readers an outstanding package, or better yet let's call it a traditional Viennese dessert. Rich with the flavor of early 20th century Vienna––the city itself, descriptions of the political, cultural and economic conditions, add in the music, the emerging scientific advances in medicine and technology, such as battery operated flashlights whose light only lasts a few seconds, topped by the food, oh, and did I mention the story itself! Vienna Twilight is another well-wrought cleverly plotted mystery featuring detective Oskar Rheinhardt and doctor Max Liebermann. If you love historical novels and enjoy mysteries, you won't be disappointed with any of Tallis' Vienna stories.
February 11, 2023
I'd seen the PBS presentation of this book well before reading it, so, knowing the story, there were no surprises. Still, the evocation of turn-of-the-century Vienna, a city on the cusp of modernization, an evolution not welcomed by all, is always fascinating. The relationship between the intellectual Dr. Liebermann and the middle-class but remarkably open Inspector Rheinhardt is always the centerpiece of these books. The fact that these two regularly spend evenings doing private recitals for themselves, with an assumed thorough familiarity with all the music no matter how obscure, and then spend time afterwards in silence while smoking cigars says a great deal of how pervasive the Viennese culture was. It's a variation on Holmes and Watson, but much more accessible.
May 27, 2020
After Darkness Rising I could hardly wait to read the next book in the series. It troubles me to say that it left me a little deflated. When the killer is revealed and then captured but there is still about a hundred pages left, my thought wasn't "Oh goody" more "why?" The two story strands didn't blend that well and I may be a tad squeamish but I found some parts rather squalid and distasteful.
I also missed the occasions when Rheinhardt and Liebermann played and sang together and there definitely wasn't enough delicious pastry.
On a more positive note the highlight for me was the blossoming relationship between Amelia Lydgate and Prof Matthias, as unexpected as it was delightful
I also missed the occasions when Rheinhardt and Liebermann played and sang together and there definitely wasn't enough delicious pastry.
On a more positive note the highlight for me was the blossoming relationship between Amelia Lydgate and Prof Matthias, as unexpected as it was delightful
December 27, 2017
I really enjoyed this book it reminded me of Sherlock Holmes. Inspector Reinhardt and Dr. Liebermann remind me of Sherlock and Watson. This is a great period piece with great characters. The mystery is well written and the characters that are well developed.
There is a great deal of Freud in these pages so if you feel things are too sexualized remember who the psychologists mentor is...Freud was all about sex and sexuality.
I will be looking for more books in this series as I found this in a free little library around the corner from me. I love finding new gems.
There is a great deal of Freud in these pages so if you feel things are too sexualized remember who the psychologists mentor is...Freud was all about sex and sexuality.
I will be looking for more books in this series as I found this in a free little library around the corner from me. I love finding new gems.
February 27, 2018
I love discovering a new writer especially one who is an excellent writer and storyteller and has written several books in a series.
These books are set in the Victorian era and full of interesting historical detail. The time is set as the period Freud's ideas are just taking hold. Dr. Max Liebermann, a psychiatrist uses the theories of Freud with whom he holds discussions to help his friend Inspector Oskar Reinhardt (a most fascinating literary creation) find a serial killer while solving two other murders along the way. What a fine tale it was!
These books are set in the Victorian era and full of interesting historical detail. The time is set as the period Freud's ideas are just taking hold. Dr. Max Liebermann, a psychiatrist uses the theories of Freud with whom he holds discussions to help his friend Inspector Oskar Reinhardt (a most fascinating literary creation) find a serial killer while solving two other murders along the way. What a fine tale it was!
June 17, 2020
I really enjoyed this book. I already was familiar with the characters and Vienna in the early 1900s but the complexity of the story was fascinating. This is a mystery that does not revolve around solving one murder but several, with three different culprits!! The depth of the characters, their reasoning, and motivation is not only well-drawn but thought provoking! I've read several of the Liebermann mysteries and am a fan of the Vienna Blood on PBS Mystery. I hope this book will be used as a base for the series!! A great read!! Recommend!!
May 23, 2018
Foi o caso que menos me interessou, não consegui apreciar. Valeu pelos personagens queridos, Liebermann e Reinhardt, pelo ambiente de Vienna no início do século XX, aquela cultura tão rica em tantos aspetos.
Foi interessante ver como o médico legista fazia o seu exame aos cadáveres, as técnicas que usavam na altura. Tremi foi a imaginá-lo (e a Amelia Lydgate, que o ajudou) a usar as mãos desprotegidas, sem luvas.
Foi interessante ver como o médico legista fazia o seu exame aos cadáveres, as técnicas que usavam na altura. Tremi foi a imaginá-lo (e a Amelia Lydgate, que o ajudou) a usar as mãos desprotegidas, sem luvas.
January 7, 2019
I found this one more full of psychoanalytic jargon than others in the series. It also seems that Liebermann is more precient about what will happen in Vienna a few years hence. In other novels, the growing Anti-Semitism is more present, this one seems bleaker, and makes me fear for Rheinhardt's daughters.
May 19, 2022
An inspiring freedom of thought interwoven with the creators of music in their time And Opera specifically those of love and the difficulty of keeping it
An inspiring freedom of thought interwoven with the creators of music in their time And Opera specifically those of love and the difficulty of keeping it yet forever cognizant of another thoughts and persona.....all in Vienna.
An inspiring freedom of thought interwoven with the creators of music in their time And Opera specifically those of love and the difficulty of keeping it yet forever cognizant of another thoughts and persona.....all in Vienna.
June 25, 2023
Rheinhardt and Liebermann have to find the man who is murdering women by inserting a hat pin into their heads.
I'm a fan of the show, and I enjoyed this book as well. Although, I kept wondering what happened to Clara? I've only read #4 and #5, so maybe I missed something from a previous book.
I'm a fan of the show, and I enjoyed this book as well. Although, I kept wondering what happened to Clara? I've only read #4 and #5, so maybe I missed something from a previous book.
May 17, 2020
Another interesting murder mystery in 1903 Vienna, combining Freudian psychology, Sherlockian deduction, classical music, anti-semitism, European pastries and lots of kinky sex. Mahler has appeared enough times in the series that I may finally have to go listen to some.
May 20, 2021
I have been enjoying this series of books since seeing the series on PBS. It is an interesting mix of detective work and psychology and the placement of the stories in turn of the century Vienna is also different. Looking forward to reading more in the series.
February 15, 2024
Another strong entry in the Max Liebermann series. I loved the PBS show "Vienna Blood", which was based on these books, and that prompted me to read the series. It's interesting to see the similarities and differences between the source material and the TV adaptation.
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