{"product_id":"the-luzern-photograph-a-noir-thriller-9781847516541","title":"The Luzern Photograph: A Noir Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Bayer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Severn House Trade Paperback\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Severn House Trade Paperback\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn this fascinating psychological neo-noir mystery, a notorious late 19th-century photograph provides the key to a contemporary murder.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche and another man in a bizarre photograph taken in Luzern, Switzerland. Over thirty years later, an intense art student in Freud's Vienna presents Lou Salome with his own drawing based on the infamous photograph. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the present day, Tess Berenson, a brilliant performance artist, moves into an art deco loft in downtown Oakland, California. Her new apartment, she learns, was vacated in a hurry by a professional dominatrix who used the name Chantal Desforges. Tess's curiosity about Chantal intensifies when her body is discovered in the trunk of a stolen car at Oakland airport. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmbarking on an obsessive investigation into the murder, Tess discovers a link to the original Luzern photograph and the 1913 drawing - but as she gets closer to the shocking truth, Tess finds that she too is in jeopardy.","brand":"Severn House Trade Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45135188328599,"sku":"9781847516541","price":1388.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781847516541.webp?v=1767146477","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-luzern-photograph-a-noir-thriller-9781847516541","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}