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- Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....
- Location(s): Zermatt
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
The adventure continues with seven year old Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones in multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Harvey’s Alice-Miranda in the Alps. In the twelfth book in the series, Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to Switzerland for a ski break, but discover an evil plan to...
- Location(s): Switzerland
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Rainy summer of 1816. Paparazzi train their telescopes across Lake Geneva on the hanky-panky of Byron, Shelley and their womenfolk. Mary Shelley is inspired to write Frankenstein. Byron diets and dashes off The Prisoner of Chillon while his doctor, ‘Pollydolly’, gives birth...
- Location(s): France, Italy, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Home-loving Laurie thinks she’s happy – she has a safe, reliable boyfriend and working in her local library is what she thought she always wanted. That is until she inherits a vintage Ferrari from her eccentric Uncle Miles and...
- Location(s): Africa, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Shortlisted for 2015 Not the Booker Prize REDEMPTION IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY – or so Pilgrim Jones hopes as she looks up at a departures board and takes the first flight. She is running away; from her failed...
- 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): Europe, Germany, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
In 1942, there are many worse places to be than Zurich, and detective Bernie Gunther has seen his fair share of them. So when a superior asks him to track down a glamorous German actress believed to be hiding...
- Location(s): Zurich
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Anna was a good wife, mostly . . . Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far...
- Location(s): Geneva, Paris, Rio de Janeiro
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
Their future is written in the stars . . . Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’ – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told...
- Location(s): Zermatt
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In London, the snow is falling and Christmas is just around the corner – but Allegra Fisher barely has time to notice. She’s pitching for the biggest deal of her career and can’t afford to fail. And when she...
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