Death and the Maiden

A Max Leibermann Mystery, Book 6

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Ida Rosenkranz is top diva at the Vienna Opera, but she’s gone silent for good after an apparent laudanum overdose. Learning of her professional rivalries and her scandalous affairs with older men, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann suspect foul play instead. Their investigation leads them into dark and dangerous conflicts with Gustav Mahler, the opera’s imperious director, who is himself the target of a poison pen campaign, and Karl Lueger, Vienna’s powerful and anti-Semitic mayor.

As the peril escalates, Rheinhardt grows further into his role as family man, while Liebermann finds himself at odds with his inamorata, Amelia, who’s loosening both her corset and her tongue in the new feminist movement.

©2012 Frank Tallis (P)2012 AudioGO

Engaging and entertaining

The character development and dialogue in this book is the continued high quality as in previous books in this series. The wonderful descriptions of 1900’s Vienna is almost another character in the book, and one which distinguishes these books so well .

Wonderful Vienna

Wonderful series,read or listen to them all ! Mahler, Freud,
intrigue, romance. philosophy, science AND PASTRIES !!!!