Karl Werthen is the protagonist, aided by his wife Berthe. Werthen is at first hired to find a wealthy family’s oldest son. As he goes to their mansion we learn one of the many things about 1900 Vienna that...

Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to life. Written as both a recollection of the past, and as a warning for...

In Freud’s dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past. On opposite sides of...

Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering...

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,

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...

Inspector Georg Buchner and Eleanor Fabian,a modern Miss Marple lead the investigations into a murder mystery which takes place in an up-market old people’s home on the outskirts of Vienna.

This novel is set in Fin de Siecle Vienna and is populated with real characters – Henry James, Edith Wharton. The women of Vienna are dying – some by murder, some by suicide. During Dr. Freud’s absence in Paris,...

sophie, one of the Weber daughters is the narrator. 21 year old Mozart is first introduced to the four Weber sisters, to attend their open house music evening. Mozart is enchanted by the girls. This is a story with...

It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a café on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders,...