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- Location(s): Paris, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1827-1838
Virtuoso pianist Isabette Grüber captivates audiences in the salons and concert halls of early nineteenth-century Vienna. Yet in a profession dominated by men, Isabette longs to compose and play her own music—a secret she keeps from both her lascivious...
- Location(s): Vienna, Jerusalem, Lebanon, London, Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1956
It is the time of the Hungarian Revolution and the KGB loom ominously in the background. Gilman family has just arrived and are getting settled in the city, he a CIA agent and Peggy, is wife, Mother and amateur...
Tante Jolesch or The Decline of the West in Anecdotes
- Location(s): Vienna
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Already a much loved classic in Austria, “Tante Jolesch or the Decline of the West in Anecdotes” is Friedrich Torberg’s tribute to the Jewish coffee-house world that flourished in Vienna in the afterglow of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until its...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
A 17 year old innocent English girl arrives in Vienna in 1937, to train at the prestigious music academy. She enjoys the sights and sounds of Vienna, and falls in love. However as the threat of war become ever...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1948
Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after...
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1960s
Brano Sev is framed for murder while on assignment in this book set in Vienna and subsequently removed from the Ministry of State Security and relegated to a factory job,
- Location(s): Vienna
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1950s
Gabriel Allon has avoided Vienna since he lost both his wife and child in a terrorist bombing. His Israeli mentor, however, requests that he returns in order to investigate a lethal explosion in Wartime Claims and Inquiry Office. His...
- Location(s): England, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1800s
Lady Emily Ashton is on a shooting weekend at the country estate of Lord Fortescue. Still engaged to Colin Hargreaves she comes face to face with a past amour (as it happens an Austrian Countess). Fortescue is found murdered...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, London, Vienna
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1930s 1940s
Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos,...
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