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The Ice Retreat

The Ice Retreat
  • Author(s): Ruth Kelly
  • Location(s): Canton Bern, Swiss Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

HEALER? Meet Hollie Jenson, presenter of the smash-hit docu-series Bad Medicine, which exposes the perils of extreme therapies. Her next target: a new retreat run by wellness guru Ariel Rose, who claims to have discovered the secret to healing...

And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)

And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • 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...

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man
  • Author(s): Georges Perec
  • 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...

A Fractured Winter

A Fractured Winter
  • Author(s): Alison Baillie
  • 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...

A Lake in Switzerland

A Lake in Switzerland
  • Author(s): Melinda Huber
  • 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,...

A Pilgrimage to Eternity

A Pilgrimage to Eternity
  • Author(s): Timothy Egan
  • 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...

A Place in the World

A Place in the World
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • 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...

A Problematic Love

A Problematic Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): Portofino, San Francisco, Seattle, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Eight years after her fiancé was murdered, attorney Megan Kole has fully reconciled two areas of her life: her intelligent son, who never knew his father, and the thriving law practice that is her late father’s legacy. The remainder...

A Recipe for Christmas

A Recipe for Christmas
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Canton Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Take one woman longing for the perfect Christmas . . . All Clara has ever wanted is Christmas surrounded by loved ones, full of warmth and delicious food. So when her new boyfriend asks her to move to Switzerland,...

A Spa in Switzerland

A Spa in Switzerland
  • Author(s): Melinda Huber
  • Location(s): Lugano
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Stacy is ready to work hard in Switzerland, but nothing about her new job at the Lakeside Hotel is easy. Some people are hostile, and there’s the language problem, too – Stacy’s sense of humour is tested every day....

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