Darkness Rising

FRANK TALLIS

Publication: Century, 2009, London

First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Vienna 1903. Outside one of the cities most splendid ornate churches lies the decapitated body of a monk. Shortly after, the remains of a municipal counselor are discovered in the grounds of another church...also decapitated. Both men were rabid anti-semites and suspicions fall on Vienna's close-knit community of Hassidic Jews. Detective Inspector Rheinhardt turns to his trusted friend, the young psychoanalyst Doctor Max Liebermann, for assistance. As the investigation progresses, Liebermann is drawn into the world of Jewish mysticism - a magical world dominated by the rites and secret lore of the Kabbalah. Liebermann, a man who rejects all forms of superstition, is forced to embrace his own cultural origins to understand the meaning of the murders. In the old ghetto district of Prague, he learns of folk legends concerning a great Kabbalist which will ultimately provide him with the key to the mystery.

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