Frank Tallis is a British novelist and clinical psychologist, born on 1 September 1958 in London. A specialist in obsessional disorders, he has lectured in clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College London. As a novelist he is best known for the Liebermann Papers, mysteries set in Vienna around 1900 featuring Max Liebermann, a young doctor and follower of Freud: the series began with “Mortal Mischief” (2005) and continued with “Vienna Blood”, “Fatal Lies” and “Death and the Maiden”, and was adapted by the BBC as “Vienna Blood” (2019). He writes supernatural fiction as F. R. Tallis and has also published non-fiction, including “Mortal Secrets”, on Freud and Vienna.
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Frank Tallis is a British novelist and clinical psychologist, born on 1 September 1958 in London. A specialist in obsessional disorders, he has lectured in clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College London. As a novelist he is best known for the Liebermann Papers, mysteries set in Vienna around 1900 featuring Max Liebermann, a young doctor and follower of Freud: the series began with “Mortal Mischief” (2005) and continued with “Vienna Blood”, “Fatal Lies” and “Death and the Maiden”, and was adapted by the BBC as “Vienna Blood” (2019). He writes supernatural fiction as F. R. Tallis and has also published non-fiction, including “Mortal Secrets”, on Freud and Vienna.