This is a great book written by Jed Rubenfield, and is based on true events which took place on Sigmund Frued's only visit to the United States. On the morning he arrives he finds a stunning debutante is found bound and strangled in her penthouse apartment high above Broadway. It's social divisions, it rumbustious energy and it's tall skyscrapers have a vivid authenticity. The following night another beautiful heiress, Nora Acton, is discovered tied to a chandelier in her parents home, viciously wounded and unable to speak or recall her ordeal. Soon Freud and his American disciple Strathem Younger, (of whom the story is written through) are enlisted to help Miss Acton recover her memory and to piece together the killers identity. It is a riddle that will test their skills to the limit, and lead them on a thrilling journey. This book makes for some absolutely brilliant reading, but is definitely more for the adult population. As this is Jed Rubenfields first novel, I think he's done pretty well, and should be praised. Jed himself is the professor of law at Yale University and is described as one of the most elegant writers of his time. Published in 2007, this is not an old book, but has been overlooked as an amazing novel written by a promising author.