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Hunkeler’s Secret

Hunkeler’s Secret
  • Author(s): Hansjörg Schneider
  • Location(s): Basel, Alsace
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

#4 in The Inspector Hunkeler series Hunkeler, now a retired inspector of the Basel police force, is hospitalized and sharing a room with Stephan Fankhauser, an old acquaintance terminally ill with cancer. One night, a groggy Hunkeler wakes up...

Eurotrash

Eurotrash
  • Author(s): Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles (Translator)
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Autofiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Traversing the country in a hired cab,...

Hunkeler’s War

Hunkeler’s War
  • Author(s): Astrid Freuler (Translator), Hansjörg Schneider
  • Location(s): Basel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to WW2

No 4 in the Inspector Hunkeler series Hunkeler, now a retired inspector of the Basel police force, is hospitalized and sharing a room with Stephan Fankhauser, an old acquaintance terminally ill with cancer. One night, a groggy Hunkeler wakes...

Snowed In with You

Snowed In with You
  • Author(s): Heidi Stephens
  • Location(s): Swiss Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WHEN THINGS SNOWBALL, CAN FROSTY FEELINGS THAW? Lucy hasn’t left the country in years. In fact, she’s barely left Bristol’s city limits. So, when the opportunity presents itself to join a work trip to the Swiss Alps, she’s wary,...

A Recipe for Christmas

A Recipe for Christmas
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Canton Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Take one woman longing for the perfect Christmas . . . All Clara has ever wanted is Christmas surrounded by loved ones, full of warmth and delicious food. So when her new boyfriend asks her to move to Switzerland,...

The Ice Retreat

The Ice Retreat
  • Author(s): Ruth Kelly
  • Location(s): Canton Bern, Swiss Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

HEALER? Meet Hollie Jenson, presenter of the smash-hit docu-series Bad Medicine, which exposes the perils of extreme therapies. Her next target: a new retreat run by wellness guru Ariel Rose, who claims to have discovered the secret to healing...

Villa del Sol

Villa del Sol
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Lugano, Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Jennifer Logan just buried her husband, the beloved senior senator from Rhode Island. To find solace and peace for her troubled soul, she rents a villa in a small town on the Swiss-Italian border. For the next six months,...

The Summer of Princess Diana

The Summer of Princess Diana
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1981

Diana Driscoll has no problem manipulating her father into funding her whirlwind tour of London to attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in the summer of 1981. There’s no way she’d miss the wedding of the...

Bittersweet Chocolate

Bittersweet Chocolate
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

In the third and final installment of Martha Reynolds’s award-winning Chocolate series, Bernadette Maguire’s story is about to come full-circle… But is she ready for what her future holds? It’s been five years since Bernie married Gary, a dear...

Chocolate Fondue

Chocolate Fondue
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Friborg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s

Twenty-three years ago, Bernie Maguire, a young student in Switzerland, delivered a son. Giving him up for adoption was the right decision, she knew, but Bernie always wondered about the boy who was now a young man. Back in...

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