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Hausfrau

Hausfrau
  • Author(s): Jill Alexander Essbaum
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna was a good wife, mostly . . . Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far...

Montecristo

Montecristo
  • Author(s): Martin Suter
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Video journalist Jonas Brand is on a rail journey from Zurich to Basel when stock trader Paolo Contini appears to throw himself from the train to his death. Brand sets his footage of the aftermath of the incident aside...

The Geneva Decision

The Geneva Decision
  • Author(s): Seeley James
  • Location(s): Geneva, Munich, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Pia Sabel plays to win. Until a few weeks ago, she was an international soccer star. But now she’s taken the helm of her billionaire father’s private security company, and she’s playing against a whole new set of opponents...

The Last Weynfeldt

The Last Weynfeldt
  • Author(s): Martin Suter
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adrian Weynfeldt is an art expert in an international auction house, a bachelor in his mid-fifties living in a grand Zurich apartment filled with costly paintings and antiques. Always correct and well-mannered, he’s given up on love until one...

Elefant

Elefant
  • Author(s): Martin Suter
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you’re anything like Schoch, who lives on the streets of Zürich and is decidedly down on his luck, you might well...

The Chef

The Chef
  • Author(s): Martin Suter
  • Location(s): St Moritz, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich’s leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is...

A Problematic Love

A Problematic Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): Portofino, San Francisco, Seattle, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Eight years after her fiancé was murdered, attorney Megan Kole has fully reconciled two areas of her life: her intelligent son, who never knew his father, and the thriving law practice that is her late father’s legacy. The remainder...

Behind Closed Doors (Marsh)

Behind Closed Doors (Marsh)
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Suicide – the act of taking one’s own life. Homicide – the act of taking someone else’s. An unethical banker suffocates. A diamond dealer slits his wrists. A media magnate freezes in the snow. A disgraced CEO inhales exhaust...

Deep Dark Blue

Deep Dark Blue
  • Author(s): Seraina Kobler, Alexandra Roesch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first in a new series starring the intelligent and warm-hearted investigator Rosa Zambrano for fans of Ann Cleaves and Sarah Pearse. Lake Zurich is Rosa Zambrano’s beat. Once a detective with the CID, she’s traded in serious crimes...

Small g: A Summer Idyll

Small g: A Summer Idyll
  • Author(s): Patricia Highsmith
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

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