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Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.
Author
Series
Eastern European crime series volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Bernhard Gunther mysteries volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Liebermann papers volume 3
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
A novel narrated by the middle son in a family of five children, one bear, and one dog. Describes the Berry family growing up in three different hotels on two separate continents.
Author
Series
Robert Renwick volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
New York art expert Colin Grant is sent to Vienna and bid on a priceless Old Master on behalf of a Texan millionaire. No sooner has Grant landed in Austria than his seemingly simple assignment turns into a nightmare, as he finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy to unleash a wave of international terrorism.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Vienna, 1903. Two men are found beheaded on church grounds, on opposite sides of the city. Reinhardt is baffled. Liebermann is drawn into an urban underworld that hosts and hides virulent racists on one side, and followers of kabbalah on the other.
12) Mephisto waltz
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a badly mutilated victim is discovered in an abandoned piano factory in 1904 Vienna, psychiatrist Max Lieberman assists Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt in an investigation that draws them into the shadowy and sexually unconventional world of fringe political activism.
13) Vienna twilight
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
While hunting for a serial murderer who has been targeting prostitutes in Vienna, Detective Oskar Reinhardt and young psychoanalyst Max Liebermann receive a tip from a patient who relays disturbing dreams.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
"Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef."-- provided by publisher.
15) Caging skies
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An avid member of the Hitler Youth in 1940s Vienna, Johannes Betzler discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa behind a false wall in their home. His initial horror turns to interest--then love and obsession. After his parents disappear, Johannes is the only one aware of Elsa's existence in the house and the only one responsible for her survival. By turns disturbing and blackly comic, haunting and cleverly satirical, Christine Leunens's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lady Sophia Huntington Villiers is no stranger to intrigue, as her work with Alan Turing's Bombe Machines at Bletchley Park during the war attests. Her wartime marriage of convenience to Simon Barre, the eighth earl of Camden, granted her the independence she craved and saved his estate. Now, as part of his covert team in postwar Vienna, she uses her charm to uncover a lethal double agent immersed in the world of relics-including the long lost death...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In fin-se-siecle Vienna, Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady's companion with a sharp, wry wit, is abruptly fired, yet again. Out on the street and out of options, she turns to her sister, Martha, for help. Martha has her own problems with six young children and an absent, disinterested husband -- the struggling and controversial professor Sigmund Freud. But while Martha is shocked and repulsed by her husband's "pornographic" work, Minna is fascinated....
18) Hostile intent
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the espionage community, Vienna is known as the City of Spies, and Matt Drake is about to learn why in the latest electrifying thriller from the New York Times Bestselling author of Tom Clancy Target Acquired and The Outside Man. When a mysterious walk-in to the US embassy in Vienna claims to have critical information about a Russian intelligence operation, he raises eyebrows. But when he asks for Matt Drake by name and calls himself the Irishman,...
19) The double game
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Decades after his favorite author confesses that he considered spying for the enemy during the Cold War, former journalist Bill Cage follows a trail of literary bread crumbs through Vienna, Prague, and Budapest to discover links between the author, a beautiful woman, and the CIA.
20) The paper man
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
1930s Austria. Vienna is a bustling, cosmopolitan city on the brink of war. Matthias Sindelar is an internationally renowned soccer player known as "The Paper Man" because of his because of his effortless weave across the field. When Sindelar speaks out against Hitler, his fame can't protect him from being placed under Gestapo surveillance. Meanwhile, Sindelar falls in love with a young Jewish girl named Rebekah. As the atmosphere in Vienna darkens...
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