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A Woman of Note

A Woman of Note
  • Author(s): Carol M Cram
  • 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...

Bullets of Palestine

Bullets of Palestine
  • Author(s): Howard Kaplan
  • 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...

The English Girl

The English Girl
  • Author(s): Margaret Leroy
  • 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...

Diplomatic Impunity

Diplomatic Impunity
  • Author(s): Jaya Gulhaugen
  • 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...

Requiem in Vienna

Requiem in Vienna
  • Author(s): J Sydney Jones
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1890s

A series of accidents plague Vienna’s Court Opera and then a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production. It would seem that someone is trying to murder Gustav Mahler. And Mahler may not be the first musical...

Tante Jolesch or The Decline of the West in Anecdotes

Tante Jolesch or The Decline of the West in Anecdotes
  • Author(s): Friedrich Torberg
  • 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...

The Tobacconist

The Tobacconist
  • Author(s): Robert Seethaler
  • Location(s): Austria, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s towards WW2

When seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the idyllic beauty of the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna, his homesickness quickly dissolves amidst the thrum of the city. In his role as apprentice to the elderly tobacconist...

The Crooked Maid

The Crooked Maid
  • Author(s): Dan Vyleta
  • 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...

A Death in Vienna

A Death in Vienna
  • Author(s): Daniel Silva
  • 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...

A Lily in the Field

A Lily in the Field
  • Author(s): John Lawton
  • 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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