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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): 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...

Monsters

Monsters
  • Author(s): Sharon Dogar
  • Location(s): London, France, Scotland, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1814: Two 16-year-old stepsisters run away with a married man. The results are devastating and the ripples will be felt for centuries. This is the incredible story of Mary Shelley – radical, rebellious and...

Silver Pebbles

Silver Pebbles
  • Author(s): Hansjörg Schneider, Mike Mitchell (translator)
  • Location(s): Basel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

A Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

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