THE DOCTOR OF DEATH: GOLDEN VENGEANCE (Vol. II)

  • The second volume of the series about a young Viennese forensic medical examiner at the beginning of the 20th century.
  • A fascinating city, an exciting period, a devious crime: high suspense against a historical backdrop. 
  • More than 50,000 copies sold of Vol. I-IV altogether.

Vienna, 1908. Fanny Goldmann is not looking for adventures. Standing her ground among her male colleagues in the forensic medicine department is enough of a tiresome battle; they see her more as an assistant than a capable doctor. But her attempt to solve a murder puts her in touch with Vienna’s seedy underbelly… which won’t let her go. Count Waidring, a man as dangerous as he is powerful, blackmails her into performing an autopsy on one of his men who was found dead. Does this murder have anything to do with Gustav Klimt’s new painting, the so-called Kiss? And what will Fanny do if she does find the murderer? Will she hand him over? Or team up with him against Waidring?

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 19.10.2021
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-00559-6
  • 400 Pages
  • Series: Die Totenärztin-Reihe
  • Author: René Anour

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René Anour

René Anour lives in Vienna. He studied veterinary medicine there, although a research project led him all the way to Harvard Medical School. He now works for the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety and is an expert in newly developed medicines for the European Medical Agency. His historical novel Im Schatten des Turms explores a fascinating aspect of medical history: the Narrenturm, the world's first psychiatric hospital. His second novel with Rowohlt is the beginning of a four-part series about a young pathologist in early 20th-century Vienna: Die Totenärztin . For these books, he received both the Golden Homer and the Homer Audience Award for the best German-language historical novel.