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Behind Closed Doors (Marsh)

Behind Closed Doors (Marsh)
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • 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...

Betrayed By The Truth

Betrayed By The Truth
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): London, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An inconvenient alibi…a priceless treasure…an MI6 mole It’s a potent lethal cocktail Journalist Emmeline Kirby and her jewel thief/insurance investigator husband Gregory Longdon become targets after a desperate stranger asks them to deliver a fortune in rare red diamonds...

Bittersweet Chocolate

Bittersweet Chocolate
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

In the third and final installment of Martha Reynolds’s award-winning Chocolate series, Bernadette Maguire’s story is about to come full-circle… But is she ready for what her future holds? It’s been five years since Bernie married Gary, a dear...

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
  • Author(s): Frederik Peeters
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Chalet Girl plays Cupid

Chalet Girl plays Cupid
  • Author(s): Lorraine Wilson
  • Location(s): Verbier
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A match made on the slopes… After a messy break up that’s left her homeless, jobless and single, temporary chalet girl Emily needs a fresh start! So when best friend Holly asks her to help out before the start...

Chocolate Fondue

Chocolate Fondue
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Friborg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s

Twenty-three years ago, Bernie Maguire, a young student in Switzerland, delivered a son. Giving him up for adoption was the right decision, she knew, but Bernie always wondered about the boy who was now a young man. Back in...

Chocolate for Breakfast

Chocolate for Breakfast
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1970s - 2010s

Young Bernie (Bernadette) Maguire is in for the journey of a lifetime when her junior year abroad takes her to Fribourg, Switzerland. Ripe for love and adventure, she is seduced by a handsome Swiss banker, but is horrified when...

Christmas at the Chalet

Christmas at the Chalet
  • Author(s): Anita Hughes
  • Location(s): St Moritz
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s the day after Christmas, and Felicity Grant is at a gorgeous ski chalet in St. Moritz for the biggest fashion show of her career. Felicity is a rising star on the bridal design scene, and this is her...

Count Karlstein – The Novel

Count Karlstein – The Novel
  • Author(s): Philip Pullman
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1810s

Daughters

Daughters
  • Author(s): Lucy Fricke, Sinéad Crowe (translator)
  • Location(s): Amorgos, Germany, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Fricke‘s Daughters tells the story of two women either side of forty on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter...

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