The Silence: 3 (A Viennese Mystery) - Tapa dura

"Jones poses a challenging puzzle for his savvy investigator while subtly portraying the growing threat to Europe's Jews"--Publishers Weekly Starred Review

"Jones' measured, stately prose is perfectly in tune with his period setting and his hero's intense intellectual curiosity"--Kirkus Reviews

"An intricately plotted, gracefully written, and totally immersive read. Recommended for Stefanie Pintoff, Laurie R. King, and Philip Gooden fans"--Library Review Starred Review

SUPERANNO Vienna, 1900. Lawyer Karl Werthen is puzzling over the suicide of a local councilman when he is assigned by Karl Wittgenstein, a powerful industrialist with many enemies, to find his recently missing son, Hans. Werthen quickly discovers that the young man appears to be alive and well in another country. But when a friend of Hans--a journalist who wrote a number of articles claiming the councilman who committed suicide was corrupt--is found dead, also from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Werthen fears that sinister forces are at work. (mystery & detective).