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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...

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 Sanatorium

The Sanatorium
  • Author(s): Sarah Pearse
  • Location(s): Crans Montana
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

EVERYONE’S IN DANGER. ANYONE COULD BE NEXT. An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when...

To the Back of Beyond

To the Back of Beyond
  • Author(s): Peter Stamm
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Thurgau
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas leaves the house. He walks down the street, and he keeps on walking. At first Astrid asks herself where he’s gone, and then when...

Waiting for Sunrise

Waiting for Sunrise
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): France, Geneva, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering...

Hotel du Lac

Hotel du Lac
  • Author(s): Anita Brookner
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s / 1990s

Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home...

After the Crash

After the Crash
  • Author(s): Michel Bussi
  • Location(s): France, Jura Mountains (Switzerland), Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s/1990s

On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one...

Confessions of a Chalet Girl

Confessions of a Chalet Girl
  • Author(s): Lorraine Wilson
  • Location(s): Verbier
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Verbier. Exclusive Swiss ski resort and the winter playground of the rich and famous = every chalet girl’s dream! Good for: Maximum time on the ski slopes – and in the bars at night! Looking for flings – or...

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...

Iced

Iced
  • Author(s): Felix Francis
  • Location(s): St Moritz
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz...

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