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41) Swiss vendetta
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Inspector Agnes Lüthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just transferred to the Violent Crimes unit from Financial Crimes to try to shed all reminders of her old life following her husband's death. Now, on the eve of the worst blizzard Lausanne has seen in centuries, Agnes has been called to investigate her very first homicide case. On the lawn of the grand Château Vallotton, at the edge of Lac Léman, a young woman...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to uncover the truth? One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamor, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a...
Author
Series
Hunkeler volume 2
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It is the end of October, the city of Basel is grey and wet. It could be December. It is just after midnight when Police Inspector Peter Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly worse for wear, spots old man Hardy sitting on a bench under a street light. He wants to smoke a cigarette with him, but the usually very loquacious Hardy is silent--his throat a gaping wound. Turns out he was first strangled, then his left earlobe slit, his diamond stud stolen....
44) Good blood
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
45) The Swiss affair
Author
Language
English
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Description
For Hadley Dunn, life has been predictable and uneventful. But that is before she spends her second year of college abroad in Lausanne, a glamorous Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva. Lausanne is imbued with the boundless sense of freedom Hadley has been seeking, and it is here she meets Kristina, a beautiful but mysterious Danish girl. The two bond quickly, but as the first snows of winter arrive, tragedy strikes. Driven by guilt and haunted...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After recovering from the icy journey that brought him to present day London, Sherlock Holmes and his companion, James Wilson, investigate a mad scientist torturing apes, the mysterious death of Sylvia Swann, and the cyberterrorist attacking England.
Author
Language
Français
Description
"Une nuit de décembre, un meurtre a lieu au Palace de Verbier, dans les Alpes suisses. L'enquête de police n'aboutira jamais.Des années plus tard, au début de l'été 2018, lorsqu'un écrivain se rend dans ce même hôtel pour y passer des vacances, il est loin d'imaginer qu'il va se retrouver plongé dans cette affaire.Que s'est-il passé dans la chambre 622 du Palace de Verbier? Avec la précision d'un maître horloger suisse, Joël Dicker nous...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After moving to a beautiful new apartment in Geneva, a mother to two young children struggles while her husband is absent and grapples with the isolation, sleeplessness, and overwhelming feelings of loneliness that begin a frightening descent into madness.
53) The pledge
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The detective investigating a little girl's murder promises the child's mother that he will find the culprit, and his vow turns into an obsession that will take him into the depths of good and evil, crime and punishment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Swiss-American police officer Agnes Lüthi is on leave in Lausanne, Switzerland, recovering from injuries she sustained in her last case, when an old colleague invites her to the world's premier watch and jewelry trade show at the grand Messe Basel Exhibition Hall. Little does Agnes know, another friend of hers, Julien Vallotton, is at the same trade show--and he's looking for Agnes. Julien Vallotton was friends with Guy Chavanon, a master of one...
56) Behind the wheel
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure (Chooseco) volume 121
Language
English
Description
The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in which a gambling syndicate tries to influence the outcome of a Swiss auto race.
57) Heidi
Author
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the central figures of his life--his four wives, his books, and his muse, Dementia--the book leads us to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an author have crossed the line between his life's work and his life itself, as the worlds of reality and literary invention grow increasingly indistinguishable.
59) Otelʹ "U ozera"
Author
Series
Premii︠a︡ Bukera volume Izbrannoe
Publisher
Rosmėn
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Russian
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