Frank Tallis, Author . Arcade $25.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-55970-643-8
As British clinical psychiatrist and novelist Tallis (How to Stop Worrying) notes, Freud famously claimed to have delivered the "third and most wounding blow" to humanity's "naïve self-love" by exposing the power of...
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Frank Tallis, Author . Thunder's Mouth $15.95 (318p) ISBN 978-1-56025-647-2
The idea that romantic passion is a mental illness may not be the most welcome message for Valentine's Day, but Tallis, a British clinical psychologist, acknowledges that it's a condition for which we may never want a cure. Tallis includes a
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Frank Tallis, Author . Grove $22 (458p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1815-8
British author Tallis (Love Sick
) sets his intelligent murder mystery in the stormy, atmospheric Austrian capital at the turn of the 20th century. Psychoanalyst Max Lieberman, a contemporary of Freud's, takes time out of his busy schedule...
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Frank Tallis, Author . Random/Mortalis $14.95 (485p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7776-9
British clinical psychologist Tallis follows his superior debut, A Death in Vienna
(2007), with this gripping sequel. Viennese Det. Insp. Oskar Rheinhardt, already faced with finding the person who butchered the emperor's favorite anaconda,...
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Frank Tallis, Author . Random $15 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7777-6
St. Florian's Military Academy outside Vienna serves as the forbidding backdrop for Tallis's stellar third historical to feature Insp. Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann (after 2008's Vienna Blood
). Harshly ruled by headmaster...
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Frank Tallis, Author . Random $15 (385p) ISBN 978-0-8129-8099-8
Tallis's excellent fourth puzzler set in early 20th-century Vienna (after 2008's Fatal Lies
) neatly blends mystery and history. A scary series of murders, which may have a supernatural component, challenge psychiatrist Max Liebermann and...
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Frank Tallis, Random, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-8129-8100-1
A so-so serial killer story line mars British author Tallis's fifth novel pairing Viennese psychoanalyst Max Liebermann and Det. Insp. Oskar Rheinhardt (after 2010's Vienna Secrets). When someone drives a hatpin into the brain of a 19-year-old...
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Frank Tallis. Random, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-8129-8334-0
A heated political rivalry between Emperor Franz Josef and Vienna’s anti-Semitic mayor, Karl Lueger, serves as the intriguing backdrop for Tallis’s superb sixth historical featuring Dr. Max Liebermann (after 2011’s Vienna Twilight). Celebrated...
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F.R. Tallis, read by Gildart Jackson. Blackstone Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9.5 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-4830-3891-9
Set in the English summer of 1976, Tallis’s haunted-house thriller combines a demonic presence, sexual politics, and the dissolution of a marriage. Shortly after Christopher Norton, a composer of exploitation movie soundtracks, and his wife, Laura,...
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Frank Tallis. Basic, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5416-1755-1
This thoughtful study from British psychologist and mystery novelist Tallis (Mephisto Waltz) comprises 11 tales from his own practice touching on a single theme: people who “have experienced significant distress attributable to falling in love or...
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Frank Tallis. St. Martin’s, $31 (496p) ISBN 978-1-250-28895-0
Psychologist Tallis (The Act of Living) takes a wide-ranging and fascinating look at how Sigmund Freud shaped and was shaped by the cultural ferment of late 19th- and early 20th-century Vienna. Tracking Freud from his upbringing in a small Moravian...
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