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The Silence

The Silence
  • Author(s): J Sydney Jones
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

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...

The World of Yesterday

The World of Yesterday
  • Author(s): Stefan Zweig
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

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...

Vienna Secrets

Vienna Secrets
  • Author(s): Frank Tallis
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

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...

Waiting for Sunrise

Waiting for Sunrise
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): France, Geneva, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

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...

36 Yalta Boulevard

36 Yalta Boulevard
  • Author(s): Olen Steinhauer
  • 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,

A Fatal Waltz

A Fatal Waltz
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • 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...

A Place to Die

A Place to Die
  • Author(s): Dorothy James
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

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.

Henry James’ Midnight Song

Henry James’ Midnight Song
  • Author(s): Carol de Chellis Hill
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th Century

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,...

Marrying Mozart

Marrying Mozart
  • Author(s): Stephanie Cowell
  • Location(s): Munich, Salzburg, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1770s - 1840s

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...

The Columbus Affair

The Columbus Affair
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Prague, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 15th Century and modern

Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun – literally. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his reputation. And – what hurts most – he knows the story which ruined...

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