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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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