{"id":172,"date":"2008-07-31T23:54:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T03:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/review-of-a-death-in-vienna-by-frank-tallis\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T18:15:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T22:15:23","slug":"review-of-a-death-in-vienna-by-frank-tallis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Death in Vienna, by Frank Tallis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image217\" height=\"239\" alt=\"death_in_vienna.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/death_in_vienna.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Death in Vienna<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Frank Tallis<\/p>\n<p>Grove Press, New York, 2005.\u00a0 458 pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a murder mystery with a fascinating historical setting.\u00a0 The hero of the book is Max Liebermann, a doctor proficient in the new science of psychoanalysis at the turn of the twentieth century, a friend and colleague of\u00a0Sigmund Freud.<\/p>\n<p>Liebermann&#8217;s friend Oskar Rheinhardt, a police detective, is presented with an especially perplexing case.\u00a0 A woman is found dead in a locked room, clearly dead by a bullet wound, yet there is no bullet found in her body.\u00a0 The woman was a practitioner of the occult and a regular leader of seances.\u00a0 Could she have offended the spirits?<\/p>\n<p>Max Liebermann reads people well, understanding Freudian slips at a time before the general populace knew about them.\u00a0 His perceptive analysis of people makes him an ideal assistant to his friend the detective.<\/p>\n<p>This book was a perfect break for me in between volumes of the much more emotional <em>Twilight <\/em>series.\u00a0 <em>A Death in Vienna <\/em>appeals on a more cerebral level, with a challenging puzzle\u00a0and an intriguing historical background, when the practice of treating psychological ailments was far different than it is today.<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to the library customer who told me about this book!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812977637\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/death_in_vienna.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/death_in_vienna.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis Grove Press, New York, 2005.\u00a0 458 pages.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a murder mystery with a fascinating historical setting.\u00a0 The hero of the book is Max Liebermann, a doctor proficient in the new science of psychoanalysis at the turn of the twentieth century, a friend and colleague of\u00a0Sigmund Freud. Liebermann&#8217;s friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-review","category-historical","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}