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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...

Escape to the Swiss Chalet

Escape to the Swiss Chalet
  • Author(s): Carrie Walker
  • Location(s): Verbier
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When your life goes off-piste how do you climb back up the mountain? Holly Roberts is well-known among family and friends for despising the cold, so no one is more surprised than her when she agrees to pack her...

Betrayed By The Truth

Betrayed By The Truth
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): London, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An inconvenient alibi…a priceless treasure…an MI6 mole It’s a potent lethal cocktail Journalist Emmeline Kirby and her jewel thief/insurance investigator husband Gregory Longdon become targets after a desperate stranger asks them to deliver a fortune in rare red diamonds...

The Murder of Anton Livius

The Murder of Anton Livius
  • Author(s): Hansjörg Schneider
  • Location(s): Basel
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

For Inspector Hunkeler the New Year begins with a most unwelcome phone call. He is summoned back to Basel from his holiday to unravel a gruesome killing in a gardening allotment on the city’s outskirts. An old man known...

The Expat Wife

The Expat Wife
  • Author(s): Courtney Hargrove
  • Location(s): Lucerne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to Switzerland in winter: Snow upon snow, everywhere to disappear, nowhere to hide… From the #1 bestselling author of London Bridge is Down comes an atmospheric, twisty and suspenseful mystery set in one of the most beautiful places...

A Place in the World

A Place in the World
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, Amsterdam, Aragon, Paris, Switzerland, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

The secrets of the past are treacherous…and irresistible. A Renaissance-era female artist and an American scholar. Linked by a centuries-old mystery… 1505: Pregnant and reunited with the love of her life, artist Mira survives a harrowing journey to the...

Time Shelter

Time Shelter
  • Author(s): Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (Translator)
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine’s assistant, the...

Geneva

Geneva
  • Author(s): Richard Armitage
  • Location(s): Canton Vaud, Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Geneva is one of the best thrillers I’ve ever read. And I’ve read quite a few.’ A. J. FINN Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alzheimer’s disease as her father:...

Farewell Fountain Street

Farewell Fountain Street
  • Author(s): Selçuk Altun, Mel Keene (translator), Nilgün Dungan (translator)
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business affairs and say goodbye to the people he cherishes. He hires Artvin, a disillusioned...

The Hike

The Hike
  • Author(s): Susi Holliday
  • Location(s): Villars-sur-Ollon
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four hikers enter the mountains. Only two return. But is it tragedy? Or treachery? When sisters Cat and Ginny travel with their husbands to the idyllic Swiss Alps for a hiking holiday, it’s not just a chance to take...

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