J Sydney Jones: 15 books
The Edit
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
An ex-Nazi on the run will do whatever it takes to keep his vicious past from being exposed in this chilling novel of suspense.
On the coast of Central America, an aging man sits down to pen his memoirs. He begins with his childhood in Vienna, just after World War I, when his family lived in...
Viennawalks
Four Intimate Walking Tours of Vienna's Most Historic and Enchanting Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Viennawalks by J. Sydney Jones is the classic walking guidebook of the Austrian capital from the Henry Holt Walks Series. It includes four intimate walking tours of Vienna's most historic and enchanting neighborhoods, with maps, photos, and a selected list of restaurants and shops.
1865, 2015. 150 Jahre Wiener Ringstraße
Dreizehn Betrachtungen
Language: German
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Oper, Museen, Kaffeehäuser und Life Ball - nur einige der internationalen Symbole für die facettenreiche Geschichte und die schillernde Gegenwart Wiens. Sie alle befinden sich an der Wiener Ringstraße, dem schönsten Boulevard der Welt. Vor 150 Jahren wurde er eröffnet, viel hat sich seither verändert....
Requiem in Vienna
A Viennese Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
"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...
by J. Sydney Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
“Jones vividly evokes 1900 Vienna . . . in his splendid third whodunit featuring attorney Karl Werthen and criminologist Hanns Gross.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Vienna, 1900. Lawyer Karl Werthen is puzzling over the suicide of a local councilman when he is assigned by Karl Wittgenstein,...
Ruin Value
A Mystery of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In 1945 Nuremberg, an American intelligence officer tracks a killer: “Powerful . . . Fans of WWII mystery fiction should consider this one mandatory reading” (Booklist).
Nuremberg is a dead city. In the aftermath of World War II, two-thirds of its population has fled or is deceased, with...
The Empty Mirror
A Viennese Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The summer of 1898 finds Austria terrorized by a killer who the press calls "Vienna's Jack the Ripper." Four bodies have already been found, but when the painter Gustav Klimt's female model becomes the fifth victim, the police finger him as the culprit. The artist has already scandalized...
by J. Sydney Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
An intriguing novel of suspense that “recreates the beau monde of vintage Vienna with verisimilitude and consummate style” (Kirkus Reviews).
Vienna, 1901. With the police seemingly indifferent to the murder of a nineteen-year-old prostitute known as Mitzi, brothel-keeper Frau Mutzenbacher...
Matter of Breeding, A
A mystery set in turn-of-the-century Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
October, 1901. Lawyer and private enquiries agent Karl Werthen accepts an assignment to protect the famous Irish writer Bram Stoker while on a speaking tour of Vienna. Meanwhile, his colleague, renowned criminologist Dr Hanns Gross has been called away to advise on a bizarre series of murders near...
Third Place, The
A Viennese Historical Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The new intriguing novel of suspense in the acclaimed Viennese Mystery series
March, 1902. When Herr Karl, head waiter of the Café Burg, is found dead at the foot of the Maria Theresa monument, it is assumed he slipped on the ice and hit his head. However, a witness has come forward who says...
Basic Law
A Mystery of Cold War Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
A peace-seeking man must unravel the mystery that led to his former lover’s death
Expat American journalist Sam Kramer is burned out: too many dead bodies, too many wars covered, too little meaning in it all. He’s got a dead-end job at the Daily European as the correspondent for Vienna,...
German Agent, The
A World War One thriller set in Washington DC
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A ruthless German spy is torn between love and duty in this powerful espionage thriller
February, 1917. A lone German agent is despatched to Washington to prevent the British delivering a telegram to President Woodrow Wilson – by any means possible. For this is the Zimmermann telegram: it...
Das Haus der Spiegel
Kriminalroman
Language: German
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Klimt unter Mordverdacht. Ein Wien-Krimi. Im Sommer 1898 wird Wien von einer Serie von Morden erschüttert - immer sind es junge Frauen, die im Prater getötet werden. Als eines seiner Modelle zum Opfer wird, gerät Gustav Klimt unter Verdacht. Er hat kein Alibi und ist für sein ausschweifendes Sexualleben...
Wiener Requiem
Kriminalroman
Language: German
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Mord im Dreivierteltakt. Wien 1899: Aufregung an der Oper. Während der letzten Proben der Saison, die Gustav Mahler leitet, kommt eine junge Sängerin ums Leben. Ein Vorhang stürzt herab und erschlägt sie. Ein Unfall? Alma Schindler, eine junge Verehrerin des Meisters, glaubt nicht daran. Sie wendet...
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