J. Sydney Jones, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-38389-3
Set in Vienna in 1898, Jones’s absorbing whodunit succeeds both as a mystery and as a fascinating portrait of a traditional society in ferment. When artist Gustav Klimt becomes a suspect in a series of bizarre murders, he turns for help to his
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J. Sydney Jones, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (293p) ISBN 978-0-312-38390-9
Set in 1899, Jones's fine second Viennese mystery (after 2009's The Empty Mirror
) opens with a falling fire curtain narrowly missing Gustav Mahler, the director of the Vienna Court Opera, but killing a soprano during a stage rehearsal....
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J. Sydney Jones. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8084-0
Jones vividly evokes 1900 Vienna under the leadership of its notorious anti-Semitic mayor, Karl Lueger, in his splendid third whodunit featuring attorney Karl Werthen and criminologist Hanns Gross (after 2010’s Requiem in Vienna). Wealthy...
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J. Sydney Jones. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8269-1
The discovery of the nude and strangled corpse of a 19-year-old prostitute known as Mitzi propels Jones’s masterful fourth mystery set in early-20th-century Vienna (after 2011’s The Silence). Josephine Mutzenbacher, Mitzi’s madam, hires Hans Gross,...
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J. Sydney Jones. Mysterious (Open Road, dist.), $14.99 ISBN 978-1-4804-2691-7
Jones (The Keeper of Hands and three other Viennese mysteries) stumbles with this serial-killer novel set on the eve of the Nuremberg war crime trials in November 1945. Capt. Nathan Morgan, an NYPD homicide detective, and Chief Insp. Werner Beck, a...
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J. Sydney Jones. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8380-3
A visit to Vienna by Bram Stoker in 1901 highlights Jones’s solid fifth whodunit featuring lawyer Karl Werthen and real-life criminologist pioneer Hanns Gross (after 2013’s The Keeper of Hands). Stoker, after being dogged for months by a stalker who
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J. Sydney Jones. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8436-7
Those expecting the sophisticated plotting of Jones’s Viennese mysteries (A Matter of Breeding, etc.) will be disappointed by this lackluster historical thriller. Early in 1917, the British intercept the real-life Zimmermann telegram, which reveals...
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J. Sydney Jones. Open Road/MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 trade paper (326p) ISBN 978-1-4976-9047-9
In this fast-moving suspense novel from Jones (The German Agent), set a few years after the end of the Cold War, Sam Kramer, an American foreign correspondent in Vienna, flies to Bonn after learning that Reni Müller, former head of the Green...
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J. Sydney Jones. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8526-5
In Jones’s atmospheric sixth mystery set in early 20th-century Vienna (after 2014’s A Matter of Breeding), Karl Andric, the majordomo of the Café Burg, appears to have taken a fatal fall on the ice, until an eyewitness comes forward to report that...
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J. Sydney Jones. MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 trade paper (309p) ISBN 978-1-5040-3873-7
An unnamed Nazi war criminal, the off-putting narrator of this rambling thriller set in 1995 from Jones (The German Agent), has escaped justice and is hiding in Central America. An SS officer who served as Adolf Eichmann’s assistant in Vienna, he...
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J. Sydney Jones, Author, Sydney J. Jones, Author Signet Book $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-16734-7
Jones's ( The Turning Point ) accomplished thriller set in World War II Austria offers driving tension from beginning to end, though the author irritatingly characterizes Nazi villains with minor sexual deviations. When General Augustus p. 62 von...
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