Frank Tallis

In the dynamic and dangerous Vienna of 1903, a brilliant psychoanalyst and a brave detective battle to catch criminals who commit the most clever and brutal crimes.
 
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...

A dogged police inspector and an insightful young psychiatrist match wits with depraved criminal minds in this acclaimed mystery series set in Freud’s Vienna.
In glittering turn-of-the-century Vienna, brutal instinct and refined intellect fight for supremacy. The latest, most disturbing example: the mysterious and savage death of a young cadet in the most elite of military academies, St. Florian’s. Even using his cutting-edge investigative...

Doctor Paul Clement witnesses the ritualistic murder of a boy who was allegedly already dead and is warned never to speak of it. Back in Paris, Paul begins to study resuscitation via electricity. He hears of patients who apparently died and were brought back to life, claiming to have witnessed what they believed to be Heaven. He attempts to experience it, but something goes horribly wrong. Could Paul have brought something back with him, an unspeakable...

1900's Vienna is a hot bed of philosophy, science, and art, where a clash of cultures and i*-deas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses.