Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls upon Dr. Max Liebermann, a student of Freud, to help investigate the murder of a beautiful young medium. The mysterious circumstances of the case suggest a supernatural power is at work.
Max employs his psychoanalytic training to probe murder suspects’ minds. Eventually, a thread emerges that takes Max and Oskar throughout Vienna. Solving the supernatural conundrum will threaten Oskar’s career and ultimately Max’s life.
Oskar asks Max to help investigate a grotesque series of murders in Vienna’s slums, where the victims are seemingly chosen at random. The killer’s gruesome calling cards are vicious mutilation with a military blade and a penchant for arcane symbols.
Their latest investigation draws Max and Oskar into the sphere of nationalistic groups who despise Vienna’s immigrants. Max’s fiancée is provoked into taking daring risks before the murderer’s shocking rationale is finally revealed.
When his nephew, a student at a military school, suffers a breakdown after a fellow cadet’s death, Max calls on Oskar for help. The school prepares a new generation of military officers, but its barbaric traditions are hidden from the outside world.
Suspicion at the military school falls on an elite group of cadets with a penchant for sadism and dangerous games. Solving the case will have a devastating impact on both Oskar and Max’s professional lives.
When a depressed Hungarian Countess drowns in the bath of her luxury hotel suite, it looks like suicide. Intense scrutiny falls on her psychoanalyst, Max Liebermann. Investigating officer Oskar Rheinhardt teams up with Max to solve the riddle of the Count
Circumstantial evidence in the hotel points to the Countess’ young friend having poisoned her, but without a motive, Oskar and Max delve into the private lives of the hotel’s residents. At the same time, Max’s parents are scrutinizing his private life int
1907, Vienna. A beggar girl finds a mutilated corpse in the slums. Strasser warns Oskar that the investigation is not the concern of the Leopoldstadt police. But when Oskar receives anonymous messages relating to the murder, he can’t resist delving furthe
Oskar instigates a surveillance operation to catch the assassin and uncovers an intricate foreign plot. Can Max and Oskar defuse the murderous scheme in time to save innocent lives? Meanwhile Max’s personal life faces yet more complications with his ex
A fanatical monk, Brother Stanislav, has been found brutally beaten to death in the monastery. Suspicion falls on a religious Jew, Isaak Korngold, who had recently reprimanded the monk for spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Inside the monastery, Max discovers a clue that reveals a hint at the monk’s behavior. Oskar approaches Amelia Lydgate and her mentor for scientific expertise. The atmosphere intensifies when another Brother is found dead.
Max Liebermann is enjoying success as a published author when the discovery of a murder in a luxury fashion house plunges him into the midst of a baffling case. A young seamstress has been killed in a surgical manner while wearing one of Mode Salon Vogl’s most elegant dresses. DI Oskar Rheinhardt needs Max’s help to understand the disturbing psychology of the murderer.
The search for the killer continues under the fear that there will be more victims. As the killer reaches out to Max, Oskar becomes deeply unsettled by the murderer’s conviction that he is an artist who brings a beautiful end to his victims’ lives. Max and Oskar doggedly pursue scant clues and the world of the fashion house perplexes them. Has Max got too close to the killer this time?
Max applies his neurological expertise to the retired Captain Steiner, who suffering from delusions. Oskar is irked when he is assigned to the burglary of an ex-Finance Minister with influential friends. When Captain Steiner is found to have committed suicide, it looks like a tragic case of trauma-induced paranoia. But Max and Oskar wonder if the curse has an altogether more human explanation.
Max and Oskar spend the night at the veteran soldiers’ home where Steiner lived. Max discovers that Steiner had a crisis of conscience while Oskar strives to unravel the identity of the man who tortured Steiner into believing he was bedeviled. Max enlists Clara and his own family in an elaborate and potentially dangerous ruse to help locate treasure and Steiner’s tormentor.
When tragedy strikes at the premiere of a silent film, Max and Oskar find themselves investigating the death of Ida Rego, an actress who lost and then regained her eyesight not long before her death. An examination of Ida’s life, her colleagues and her lovers pulls back the curtain on relationships in Vienna’s theatrical community that are as complex as they are barbed.
Ida had many lovers and mixed with powerful men. While a leak in the investigation has professional and personal repercussions for Oskar and Max, one suspect stands out, an American senator with incendiary views. A damning revelation enables Max to see that in different circumstances the same men can cause both miracles and calamities.
