"In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Zofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...

"Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically...

"In Nazi-occupied Vienna, a string of unsolved murders has thrown the residents of one apartment building into a state of uneasy watchfulness. Anton Beer, a young doctor who has made a study of forensic psychology, is asked by the retired Professor Speckstein to investigate. It is an unwelcome request: Speckstein's job is to spy on the building's residents for the Nazis, and Doctor Beer has his own reasons for keeping his private life hidden from...

"From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings. In the dazzling glitter of 1900 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauer--young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish--meets painter Gustav Klimt. Wealthy in everything but freedom,...

What could make a successful, happily married man take a gun and shoot himself? What made a young artist on the brink of fame throw himself to his death? These are the questions facing Chief Inspector Lamb and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Cogan. Neither victim left a note behind to explain what drove him to take his own life, and it appears that nothing untoward had occurred in the weeks preceding their deaths. Having briefly met both victims,...

"En 1904 tienen lugar en Viena una series de asesinatos que conmocionan a la inestable sociedad del imperio. Todas las víctimas son modelos de artistas, mujeres jóvenes y hermosas, de dudosa reputación, que pertenecen a La Maison des Mannequins, una organización creada por la amante y musa de uno de los pintores más afamados de la ciudad: la bella y enigmática Inés. De la noche a la mañana, Inés se convertirá en la principal sospechosa de...

"A finales del verano de 1937, el joven Franz Huchel abandona el «agujero lluvioso» de su Attersee natal para buscarse la vida en Viena, donde encuentra trabajo en un puesto de venta de diarios y tabaco en el que confluyen las clases populares y la burguesía judía, un lugar idóneo para satisfacer su deseo de comprender una realidad subyugante. Así pues, si bien la lectura asidua de la prensa despierta su educación política, el momento mágico...