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- 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): Paris, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
1960s. Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster’s blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the...
- 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...
- Location(s): Lake Constance
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Modern
Stacy can’t believe her luck when her best friend Emily invites her on a holiday to Switzerland. She arrives at the Lakeside Hotel with high hopes, but the problems begin straightaway. Emily’s recent injury doesn’t let her do much,...
- Location(s): England, France, Italy, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
At a time when Britain, America, and much of Europe have never been so secular, Timothy Egan sets out on a thousand-mile pilgrimage along an ancient route, through the theological cradle of Christianity, to explore one of the biggest...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees, Amsterdam, Aragon, Paris, Switzerland, The Basque Country
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)
The secrets of the past are treacherous…and irresistible. A Renaissance-era female artist and an American scholar. Linked by a centuries-old mystery… 1505: Pregnant and reunited with the love of her life, artist Mira survives a harrowing journey to the...
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