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Title	:	The Fig Eater
Author	:	Jody Shields
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 311 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2001 by Back Bay Books (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery

The Fig Eater Paperback | Pages: 311 pages

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When a young woman's body is discovered in the summer of 1910 Vienna, the Inspector's wife is certain the figs found in her stomach during the autopsy are the clue to the identity of the murderer—for there are no fresh figs in Vienna at this time of year.

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Original Title:	The Fig Eater
ISBN:	0316785261 (ISBN13: 9780316785266)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Vienna(Austria)

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I wish I could give this book a 3 1/2 star rating, but without that option, I'm rounding up to a 4 to make up for the, ahem, misplaced criticism of some of the other reviews.Perhaps part of the problem is that the book cover, as one reviewer mentions, is pretty. Therefore, people enter a booka work of fiction that quite explicitly sets out to re-imagine Freud's most famous case as a murder and investigationas if they had picked up a pleasure fiction book rather than an extended work of research,

I've read a number of reviews of this book that say it was disappointing, lacking in style, and that it fell short of its plot goals. I disagree on all accounts. I thought that Jody Shields had a wonderful writing style and that her characters all came together to create a very well rounded cast. The contrasting methods by which the detective and his wife explore the murder of young Dora (the detective through science and fact, the wife through intuition) were perfectly suited to the characters.

Gah. I do not like this book. It's so stuffy and full of itself. I've gone through several mystery phases in life (JA Jance, MC Beaton, etc) but this is the only murder mystery that I really don't give a crap about solving. Who cares. I brought it on vacation and avoided it until I really had nothing else to do. Slogged through a good half of it, but now that I'm home and have access to many more enjoyable books, I will probably never finish it.

Oh, goodness. The cover of this book is gorgeous and the description of the back cover had me itching to read it: Murder? In Vienna? In 1910? Yes, please! What could be better than a mash-up of historical fiction and murder mystery? Unfortunately, my expectations must have been miscalibrated because this book totally missed the mark for me.The story follows the Inspector (who remains nameless) as he investigates the death of Dora, a young girl from a well-to-do Viennese family whose throttled

Let me just say Jody Shields writes in a unique way and when approaching a mystery, manages to bring introspection to the characters more than to the mystery at hand. Because of this many may find the story disconcerting at the least. But give it a chance, you will end up scratching your head in the end, but also saying aha! There is a definate feminist bend to the book even though the detective, the murderer, and many characters are men.

An odd, well-written book that makes no sense as a story, but was still entertaining. Jody Shields throws completely irrelevant information at you, skips around with scenes and characters, and leaves many questions unanswered. What I got from it is intuition/superstition can bring about the same answers as being objective/logical, only the methods are different. And sometimes you manipulate your young nanny-helper-friend into doing very weird things in order to get the answers you want. This was

A woman (based on Dora, a patient of Sigmund Freud) is found murdered in a Vienna park and a police inspector and his wife use two very different methods (scientific and intuitive) to race to solve the crime.My sister had this book several years ago and I loved the cover and wanted to read it. A few weeks ago I bought my own copy and set to reading it. I noticed that it only had two and a half stars from amazon, but was undaunted-- it was exactly the kind of book that I would like. But it was