J. Sydney Jones

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1990
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Viennese Mystery

1 - The Empty Mirror (Jan-2009)
2 - Requiem in Vienna (Feb-2010)
3 - The Silence (Dec-2011)
4 - The Keeper of Hands (Jun-2013)
5 - A Matter of Breeding (Jul-2014)
6 - The Third Place (Oct-2015)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Time of the Wolf

    The possessors of secret documents that reveal the details of Hitler's final solution, police detective Gunther Radok and his lover Frieda Lassen flee World War II Austria, pursued by the relentless Wolf Hartmann, Frieda's former lover...

  • The Hero Game

    Jailed for fighting against facism in Spain, Irish hero Jack Kavanaugh reluctantly agrees to work for the Nazis in return for his release, and soon he finds himself a pawn in an assassination plot. Original....

  • Frankie

    Adventure, mystery, and the stirrings of first love blend together in this fast-paced novel, which brings to life a little-known episode of our history, the miners' unrest and the tragic Ludlow Massacre of 1913-1914 in southern Colorado....

  • The Empty Mirror

    A Viennese Mystery - 1

    It's the summer of 1898 and Austria is transfixed by a series of brutal murders. When renowned painter Gustav Klimt's female model becomes the fifth victim, the artist is fingered as the culprit. Klimt's lawyer, Werthen and his friend, the famed crim...

  • Requiem in Vienna

    A Viennese Mystery - 2

    At first it seemed like a series of accidents plagued Vienna's Court Opera. But after a singer is killed during rehearsals the evidence suggests something much more dangerous. Someone is trying to murder conductor and composer Gustav Mahler, and lawy...

  • The Silence

    A Viennese Mystery - 3

    Vienna, 1900. Lawyer Karl Werthen is puzzling over the suicide of a local councilman when he is assigned by Karl Wittgenstein, a powerful industrialist with many enemies, to find his recently missing son, Hans. Werthen quickly discovers that the youn...

  • The Keeper of Hands

    A Viennese Mystery - 4

    Vienna, 1901. With the police seemingly indifferent to the murder of a 19-year-old prostitute known as Mitzi, brothel-keeper Frau Mutzenbacher turns to lawyer Karl Werthen to find out what happened and bring her killer to justice. But the more Werthe...

  • Ruin Value

    As Europe prepares for the Nuremberg trials, a killer stalks a broken city Nuremberg is a dead city. In the aftermath of World War II, two-thirds of its population has fled or is deceased, with thirty thousand bodies turning the ruined industrial ...

  • A Matter of Breeding

    A Viennese Mystery - 5

    1901. Karl Werthen and his colleague, renowned criminologist Dr Hanns Gross, are investigating a bizarre series of murders in the small Austrian town of Graz. Meanwhile, back in Vienna, Karl's wife Berthe is looking into what seems to be a fraudulent...



  • The German Agent

    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 possib...

  • Basic Law

    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 Da...

  • The Third Place

    A Viennese Mystery - 6

    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 otherwise, and private enquiries a...

  • The Edit

    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, jus...

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J. Sydney Jones has published 15 books.

J. Sydney Jones does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Cry of Cicadas, was published in June 2024.

The first book by J. Sydney Jones, Time of the Wolf, was published in October 1990.

Yes. J. Sydney Jones has 1 series.
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