Another great installment featuring Werthen and Gross. However, I found the side plot featuring Werthern's wife and secretary took something away from my enjoyment of the novel. It just didn't work for me.
If you read a lot of thrillers, you know the basic structure of the document-based type. There is a chase by multiple characters after some document or manuscript, either because it’s valuable for its rarity or because its exposure would harm some of the chasers or their masters. In this case, th...
Wow, this was one heck of a ride! Once I finally got all the characters straightened out and got down to the nitty gritty I could not put this thriller down. There were so many plot twists and twists on the plot twists. This was one twisting thriller that I thoroughly enjoyed. If you like thrillers,...
"The Empty Mirror" owes a great deal to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. In fact, Holmes is mentioned several times throughout the novel, which sees a physician-turned-criminologist and a lawyer investigating a series of Jack the Ripper-type slayings in fin-de-siecle Vienna. Werth...