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Title: Fatal Lies

Author: Frank Tallis

Narrator: Robert Fass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Vienna, 1903. In St. Florians military school, a young cadet is found dead - his body lacerated with razor wounds. Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, baffled by details surrounding the case, turns to his friend - the psychiatrist and disciple of Freud - Doctor Max Liebermann, for help. In the closed society of the school, power is everything - and suspicion falls on an elite group of cadets, with a taste for sadism and dangerous games. A tangled web of uneasy relationships is uncovered, at the heart of which are St. Florians dark secrets, which Doctor Liebermann, using the new psychoanalytic tools, begins to probe. Against this backdrop of mystery and danger, Liebermann finds himself romantically involved with a passionate and elemental Hungarian concert violinist, gifted with uncannily accurate intuitions. Yet all is not what it seems, and Liebermann is drawn into the perilous world of espionage and forced to make choices, the outcome of which will threaten the entire stability of the Habsburg Empire.

Members Reviews:

Excellent Third Novel in This Historical Series

"Fatal Lies" is the third novel in Frank Tallisâ Liebermann Papers series, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th Century. In this outing, Detective Inspector Rheinhardt is asked to look into the unexpected death of a young student at a nearby military academy, a place where prejudice and sadism are, if not explicitly encouraged, at least not seriously frowned upon by the school authorities. It seems that one such bully has relatives in high places, which creates difficulty for Rheinhardt, and he must turn to his friend, the Jewish psychiatrist Max Liebermann, for help. When a second boy disappears days after the two friends questioned him, our heroes realize that time is quickly running out if they wish to catch a killerâ. As with the two previous books in this series, what interests me most about "Fatal Lies" is the way the author depicts Viennese society in 1903, showing both a rising nationalism amongst some high-powered individuals and an accompanying rise in anti-Semitism in what had been a relatively well assimilated city. As history, it seems pretty accurate, and as a mystery, the book captures the readerâs attention very well. Recommended - but itâs probably best to read the first two novels in the series before this one!

Meets the standard for this excellent series

"Fatal Lies" is author Frank Tallis' third installment of the Lieberman/Rheinhardt mystery series, and a inventive and entertaining story it is. The core of the book is the investigation of a student's death at a Viennese military school. It's soon clear that the institution fosters a lot of the most extreme kind of bullying and mistreatment that those schools were once notorious for. The classism and latent racism of the time (turn of the 20th century) are knowingly woven into the murder mystery as well as being secondary themes in the social portrait of Vienna that is skillfully built into this mystery series by author Tallis.

Protagonist Dr. Max Liebermann, the Freud-trained psychoanalyst, brings an interesting aspect to the police procedurals that are the main engine for much of this story. But in "Fatal Lies," Dr.