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Death and the Maiden (2011)

por Frank Tallis

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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:Frank Tallis, acclaimed author of the Edgar Awardnominated Vienna Secrets, returns with a new and masterfully woven tale full of deceit, love, and rich mystery. Set in fin de sicle Vienna, its perfect for fans of Boris Akunin, Alan Furst, and David Liss.
 
Ida Rosenkranz is top diva at the Vienna Opera, but shes gone silent for good after an apparent laudanum overdose. Learning of her professional rivalries and her scandalous affairs with older men, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann suspect foul play instead. Their investigation leads them into dark and dangerous conflicts with Gustav Mahler, the operas imperious director, who is himself the target of a poison pen campaign, and Karl Lueger, Viennas powerful and anti-Semitic mayor. As the peril escalates, Rheinhardt grows further into his role as family man, while Liebermann finds himself at odds with his inamorata, Amelia, whos loosening both her corset and her tongue in the new feminist movement.
 
PRAISE FOR FRANK TALLISS VIENNA THRILLERS
 
[A] captivating historical series.The New York Times Book Review
 
[A] riveting read . . . with well researched and wonderfully imagined period detail.The Guardian (U.K.), on Vienna Twilight
 
Chock-full of tantalizing elements.The Austin Chronicle, on Vienna Secrets
 
Engrossing . . . immensely satisfying.The Boston Globe, on Fatal Lies.
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Best part of this book for me was checking out the music on you- tube. Not a fan of Freudian psychiatry, but the plot was adequate and characters ok ( )
  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |
At the beginning of "Death and the Maiden," by Frank Tallis, Ida Rosenkrantz, operatic diva at the Vienna Opera under the direction of Gustav Mahler, is found dead, an apparent suicide. But when Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and his young psychiatrist colleague and protege of Freud, Max Liebermann, look a bit closer, it seems that perhaps the singer has been murdered. An inquiry into her life, habits, friends and lovers reveals a connection between the diva and the Lord Mayor Karl Lueger, and also between herself and her rather exhibitionistic psychiatrist; and when it’s discovered that she had been pregnant and had an illegal abortion some months before her death, well, the questions multiply. But when there’s also found to be a connection with the Royal Palace, and the Habsburg Emperor’s household itself, things really start to become dangerous….. There are, to my knowledge, six novels in the “Max Liebermann Papers” stories by Frank Tallis, this being the last; all set in 1903 Vienna, with all its complexities: on the one hand a very genteel and cultured world, on the other a very barbaric and vicious place, especially if one is, like Max, Jewish. I love the attention to detail, the amount of research both of the time, place and status of psychiatry then (Tallis is a trained clinical psychologist), but I also love that the stories that unfold are as human today as they would have been over 100 years ago; human technology changes a lot, but human nature doesn’t. I don’t know if there will be more novels in this series (this one was published in 2011), but I hope so; the world can use more well-rounded, music-minded, men like Oskar and Max. Recommended - but read the first five before this one, to get the most out of it! ( )
  thefirstalicat | Aug 31, 2016 |
Le dernier volume de cette série reprend les thèmes qui nous avaient déjà séduits: la résolution des énigmes grâce aux théories psychanalytiques, le contexte culturel viennois autour de 1900, la montée de l'antisémitisme et des tensions politiques. Les compromissions, le pessimisme et la fin ouverte de cet opus ne font que souligner les heures sombres qui attendent l'Europe. ( )
  Steph. | Mar 15, 2015 |
Frank Tallis's fifth book in his Liebermann Vienna series is a very good follow-up to the previous four. Set in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century, the novels follow the burgeoning psychiatric career of Max Liebermann, an acolyte of Sigmund Freud, who often assists the Viennese police in crime solving. I've read others in this series and the key players are interesting and evolving.

Max Liebermann is not the only main character in Tallis's books. He shares the pages with policeman Oskar Rheinhardt and the city of Vienna. Vienna - that gorgeous capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire on the banks of the Danube - a city filled with music and pastries, which cover up a deeper layer of anti-Semitism and corruption of all layers of government that Rheinhardt and Liebermann delve into as they work together to solve murders.

In his latest novel, Tallis throws in murder of an opera diva, the election of Karl Lueger to yet another term as mayor of Vienna, as well as tracing the history of some musical pieces Liebermann has found. Dr Freud makes an appearance as Liebermann's mentor and Amelia Lydgate returns as the object of Liebermann's rather ham-handed suitor. Gustav Mahler and Emperor Franz Josef are also part of the story. A real all-star lineup! But it all comes together in the end. Tallis has a way of tying up loose ends, making this book a very satisfactory read. ( )
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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:Frank Tallis, acclaimed author of the Edgar Awardnominated Vienna Secrets, returns with a new and masterfully woven tale full of deceit, love, and rich mystery. Set in fin de sicle Vienna, its perfect for fans of Boris Akunin, Alan Furst, and David Liss.
 
Ida Rosenkranz is top diva at the Vienna Opera, but shes gone silent for good after an apparent laudanum overdose. Learning of her professional rivalries and her scandalous affairs with older men, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann suspect foul play instead. Their investigation leads them into dark and dangerous conflicts with Gustav Mahler, the operas imperious director, who is himself the target of a poison pen campaign, and Karl Lueger, Viennas powerful and anti-Semitic mayor. As the peril escalates, Rheinhardt grows further into his role as family man, while Liebermann finds himself at odds with his inamorata, Amelia, whos loosening both her corset and her tongue in the new feminist movement.
 
PRAISE FOR FRANK TALLISS VIENNA THRILLERS
 
[A] captivating historical series.The New York Times Book Review
 
[A] riveting read . . . with well researched and wonderfully imagined period detail.The Guardian (U.K.), on Vienna Twilight
 
Chock-full of tantalizing elements.The Austin Chronicle, on Vienna Secrets
 
Engrossing . . . immensely satisfying.The Boston Globe, on Fatal Lies.

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