Psychoanalysts and novelists might be seen as sleuths following differing methodologies to discover truths about the human condition. In The Vienna Jazz Trio, Tomas Böhm, who practices both these professions, narrates the experiences of an engaging cohort of young adults beginning in the turbulence of the 1920s, vividly depicting the interaction between societal upheaval and the characters' various psychological strengths and vulnerabilities. Böhm invokes the reader's sympathy with his likable and mildly flawed protagonists: the handsome physician Oscar; his shy younger brother Nathan, torn between music and literature; Gerhard,