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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Small g: A Summer Idyll

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

Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night
  • Author(s): F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Nice, Rome, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into...

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