Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. In 1999 he received a Writers' Award from the Arts Council and in 2000 he won the New London Writers' Award.
Mortal Mischief was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award in 2005 and for the prestigious Quais du Polar award in France, 2007.
Vienna Blood was published in 2006,
Fatal Lies in 2008 and
Darkness Rising in 2009, all to great acclaim. Titles in the Liebermann series have been translated into fourteen languages.
A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna.
The killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer', but rather an entirely new phenomenon, his deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age before the First World War.
Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend, psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann, for assistance. But to understand the killer's behaviour, Liebermann must make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind, tracking a monster whose modus operandi combines both exquisite precision and savage cruelty.
As the investigation continues, Liebermann and Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art and couture, worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister of secrets...
It's cleverly done and never dull, with science and folklore neatly woven into a fascinating plot. This, together with well researched and wonderfully imagined period detail, make
Deadly Communion a rich and riveting readBrilliantly combines the popular with the serious in clever historical thrillersConfirms his place in the front rank of British thriller writersTallis's writing still has the richness of literary fiction ... the reader is taken into the terrifying psyche of a murderer ...
Deadly Communion is the most psychologically cohesive of the Max Liebermann outingsAn interesting, intelligent and enjoyable read
