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- Location(s): St Moritz, Zurich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 2000s
As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich’s leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is...
- Location(s): Austria, Swiss Alps
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1926
The book is divided into two parts: It is 1926, and the main character, Christine Hoflehner, in her late 20s, works as a lowly postal clerk in a small Austrian village. She has lost her father and her brother...
- Location(s): London, Swiss Alps, Wales
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): early 1900s onwards
The story of Grace Farringdon, who looks back on her life on the eve of the anniversary of the death of her friends. Growing up in early 1900’s Dulwich (South East London), Grace longs to escape her dreary life....
- Location(s): Geneva
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1930s
Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one...
- Location(s): Berlin, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): 1941
June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl,...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Fact lovers will enjoy this treasure-trove of serious and not so serious facts and figures about Switzerland – a collection of lists that will amuse and enlighten you with things you never dreamed you’d enjoy. You can learn how...
And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)
- Location(s): Meiringen
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on...
- Location(s): Canton Zug
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A missing girl. Threatening notes. Sinister strangers. Olivia’s idyllic family life in a Swiss mountain village is falling apart. She thought she’d managed to escape the past, but it’s coming back to haunt her. Has somebody discovered her secret...
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