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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...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Location(s): Prague, Geneva, Thailand, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In this novel – a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities – Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century ‘Being’ In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world...
- 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...
- Location(s): Geneva, Egypt, Rome, St Moritz, Turkey, Vatican City
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present
Pope Gregoire XVII was last seen waving to the crowd at Saint Peter’s square from the famous Apostolic Palace window. Despite several layers of tight security, neither the Gendarmerie nor The Entity (the Vatican’s secret service) or the Swiss...
- Location(s): French Alps, Geneva
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1914 - 1976
In 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine builds a chalet high up in the French Alps and every summer les rosbifs arrive, to the benefit of the curious locals who work for them. For Mathilde, one of the domestic ‘uglies’ chosen...
- Location(s): Lake Geneva, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary, going back
Can young hearts ease a restless spirit? On the shores of stunning Lake Geneva, Gina Remy is celebrating her brother’s wedding – when the figure of a woman appears hovering above the water, beckoning to her. Ghostly visitations do...
- Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
- Genre(s): Thriller, Graphic Novel
- 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,...
- Location(s): Wengen
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
(from Amazon.co.uk) Mountains, Mystery, Romance: Can you run from your past? Harriet Anderson’s life is spiralling out of control. Unused to such mayhem, she ditches her high-powered job to take refuge in the Swiss Alps where she meets Philippe...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From late 1940s
What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in ‘neutral’ Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav’s father...
The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
- Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s, Modern
Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...
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