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...
| ISBN: | 9780099519744 |
| Publication date: | 6th August 2009 |
| Author: | Frank Tallis |
| Publisher: | Arrow Books an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 407 pages |
| Series: | Vienna Blood |
| Genres: |
Crime and Mystery Modern and Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction |
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...
Darkness Rising features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Darkness Rising is available in Paperback
Darkness Rising was written by Frank Tallis and published by Arrow Books an imprint of Random House
Darkness Rising has 407 pages
Yes it is part of Vienna Blood series
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