Vienna's Second Death

By WENQIU SHEN

At Vienna Central Cemetery, book conservator Elena Leitner discovers a grave marked with **Mira Kovač**-the name she was born with-but bearing another woman's date of birth.
The coffin is scheduled to be exhumed in eleven days.
If the grave is opened, Elena may lose the identity, family, and professional life she has built over three decades. If it remains sealed, the woman buried beneath her name may disappear forever.
Taiwanese writer and historical researcher Lin Po-chuan is hired by the elegant, morally compromised Chou Yun-heng to examine a wartime refugee file connected to an eight-million-euro port transaction. What begins as a seventy-two-hour archival assignment uncovers altered death certificates, missing consent records, twenty-seven erased names, and a network that has learned how to bury the living on paper.
As Vienna, Trieste, and the Adriatic coast close around them, Lin must decide whether documenting Chou's confession will expose the truth-or become the most sophisticated version of the lie.
A literary conspiracy thriller about stolen identities, institutional memory, and the lives that survive inside official mistakes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HF176HBB
• ISBN13: 9798191952949
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"