Vienna, 1910. On a warm August night a body of a young woman is discovered in the city's celebrated Volksgarten. She has been strangled. Using the latest forensic methods and psychological thinking, the Chief Inspector of Police begins his painstaking search for the killer. He is not alone, however. His wife Erszebet - an exotic, passionate woman steeped in the folk tales and Gypsy lore of her native Hungary - becomes obssessed with the dead girl. In secret, enlisting the help of a young English governess, she conducts her own investigation of the murder, guided by intuition, instinct and superstition.

Inspired by the story of Freud's celebrated patient Dora and set against the brooding backdrop of Vienna, this novel is an astonishing fiction debut.

Published by Doubleday in 2000. ISBN: 0-385-6155-7 271 pages.

This softcover book is in very good secondhand condition.

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