A Place to Die

Eleanor and Franz Fabian arrive from New York to spend Christmas with Franz's mother in her sedate retirement home in the Vienna Woods. Their expectations are low: at best boredom at worst run-of-the-mill family friction. But when the wealthy charming Herr Graf is found dead in his apartment with an ugly head wound the Fabians are thrust into a homicide investigation. Some residents and staff have surprising connections to the dead man but who would have wanted to kill him? Inspector Büchner tracks down the murderer against a backdrop of Viennese history from the Nazi years to the present day. Witty suspenseful lyrical this is a literary whodunit that will keep you guessing till the last page.