J. Sydney Jones

In 1898, with Austria paralyzed by a series of brutal murders, famed artist Gustav Klimt suddenly finds himself the prime suspect in the crimes when his female model falls victim to the killer, and his lawyer Werthen and friend, criminologist Inspector Gross, join forces to reveal a national conspiracy, clear the artist's name, and find the real killer. 20,000 first printing.

A Viennese Mystery

The Empty Mirror

The Cry of Cicadas

In 1900 Vienna, lawyer Karl Werthen finds himself investigating a puzzling suicide, the disapperance of a wealthy heir, and the murder of a journalist.

The Silence

"What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for Victorian London and Caleb Carr did for old New York, Sydney Jones does for historic Vienna." —Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling author of the Queen Elizabeth I mystery series At first it seemed like a series of accidents plagued Vienna’s Court Opera. But after a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production, the evidence suggests something much more dangerous. Someone is trying to murder the famed conductor and composer Gustav Mahler. Worse, Mahler might not be the first musical genius to be dispatched by this unknown killer. Alma Schindler, one of Mahler's many would-be mistresses, asks the lawyer and aspiring private investigator Karl Werthen to help stop the attacks. With his new wife, Berthe, and his old friend, the criminologist Hanns Gross, Werthen delves into Vienna's rich society of musicians to discover the identity of the person who has targeted one of Austria's best-known artists. Set during the peak of Vienna’s cultural renaissance and featuring some of the city's most colorful residents, Requiem in Vienna is a perfect historical fiction. Rich in description and populated by vivid characters, this is a mystery that will leave readers guessing until the very last moment.

Requiem in Vienna

In 1901 Vienna, lawyer Karl Werthen takes on two cases that draw him into a conspiracy of espionage and affairs of the state, the murder of a nineteen-year-old prostitute and the assault of a controversial playwright.

The Keeper of Hands

As Europe prepares for the Nuremberg trials, a killer stalks a broken city Nuremberg is a dead city. In the aftermath of World War II, two-thirds of its population has fled or is deceased, with thirty thousand bodies turning the ruined industrial center into a massive open grave. Here, the vilest war criminals in history will be tried. But in Nuremberg’s dark streets and back alleys, chaos rules. Captain Nathan Morgan is one of those charged with bringing order to the home of the war crime trials. A New York homicide detective who spent the war in Army intelligence, he was born to be a spy—and now, in 1945, there is no finer place for his trade than Nuremberg. As the US grapples with the Soviets for postwar supremacy, a serial murderer targets the occupying forces. Nathan Morgan may be the perfect spy, but it’s time for him to turn cop once more.

A Mystery of the Third Reich

Ruin Value

The revelatory look at Hitler's formative years in Vienna provides startling insights into the future Furher.

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