tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post3897162839763039290..comments2024-03-28T07:56:38.659+00:00Comments on The View from the Blue House: Review of A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis (Arrow, 2006)Rob Kitchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567424969308636082noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post-86982491007195341362012-09-29T05:41:19.913+01:002012-09-29T05:41:19.913+01:00Rob, I haven't read this one but I've read...Rob, I haven't read this one but I've read two later books in the series, both of which were nominated for Edgars for Best Paperback Original. I thought that the mysterious murder method used in <i>Vienna Secrets</i> was so far-fetched and, at the same time, so badly telegraphed that it really ruined the mystery aspects of the book for me. However, as you said, Tallis does a fine job in setting and character. I had fewer reservations about the following book in the series, <i>Vienna Twilight</i>.<br /><br />An interesting note about this series is that Tallis, like his fellow mystery author Jonathan Kellerman who writes the Alex Delaware series, is a psychologist, so he has no problem writing knowledgeably about the work of Freud and his contemporaries.SteveHLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01745665231586422220noreply@blogger.com