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Domina

Domina
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she’s finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith’s done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting – unfortunately,...

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,...

From Italy with Love

From Italy with Love
  • Location(s): France, Italy, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Home-loving Laurie thinks she’s happy – she has a safe, reliable boyfriend and working in her local library is what she thought she always wanted. That is until she inherits a vintage Ferrari from her eccentric Uncle Miles and...

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:...

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...

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 Art of Deception

The Art of Deception
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Canton Vaud, Canton Bern
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Art college dropout Lucie arrives in a Swiss ski resort looking for work – but instead finds love in the form of the handsome and charismatic Mathieu. Matt seems like perfect husband material – especially when Lucie discovers he’s...

The Fear Index

The Fear Index
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 6.5.2010 (British General Election day)

With his eighth novel, but only his second set in the present day (after “Ghost”), Robert Harris will surely notch up another international bestseller. Alex Hoffman, a Geneva-based scientist turned hedge-fund supremo, has the Midas touch. But when he...

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 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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