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Europe's elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna--princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar--all negotiating the fate of the continent by day and pursuing pleasure by night. Until Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests… Suzanne Rannoch has tried to ignore rumors that her new husband, Malcolm, has also been tempted by Tatiana.

Lottie Sprigg and her employer, Mrs. Moore, are guests at Vienna's opulent Schönbrunn Palace. But their visit goes awry when the corpse of a renowned psychoanalyst is found in the grounds. There's a handful of suspects and-tragically for Mrs. Moore—one of them is her beloved Prince Manfred.

Vienna, aprile 1711. Da dieci anni una guerra rovinosa insanguina l'Europa. Solo la capitale asburgica conserva miracolosamente la sua opulenza: mentre carestia e devastazione cancellano un'intera epoca, a Vienna si mangia, si beve e si balla. Il garzone protagonista di Imprimatur e Secretum, che in Italia si era ormai ridotto alla vita di stenti dello spazzacamino, trova salvezza proprio nella città imperiale: Atto Melani, agente segreto del Re Sole, gli ha saldato un antico debito. I due vecchi amici si ritrovano, ma troppe cose sono cambiate.

State Security Officer Brano Sev is the secretive member of the Ministry for State Security. No one else quite trusts him, but it is part of his job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course.