Crime books set in Switzerland (5)


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1.

Der Besuch der alten Dame : eine tragische Komödie by Friedrich Dürrenmatt DE

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
Description:
A rich woman agrees to share her wealth the people in her poor village in return for the life of the man who ruined her reputation when she was young.

2.

Allmen and the Dragonflies by Martin Suter EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
Description:
A thrilling--and quite funny--art heist escapade that evokes a world of European high culture and luxury, while providing a glimpse of some of the shadowy characters who people the dark underbelly of the art and antique markets.

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The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
Description:
"Spectacular . . . drops the reader through one trapdoor into another" A.J. FINN It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622. This anomaly piques the interest of Joël Dicker, Switzerland's most famous literary star, who flees to the Verbier to recover from a bad breakup, mourn the death of his publisher, and begin his next novel. Before he knows it, he's coaxed out of his slump by a fellow guest, who quickly uncovers the reason behind Room 622's erasure: an unsolved murder. The attendant circumstances: a love triang... continue

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The Basel Killings by Schneider Hansjörg EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
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. The media and the police come quickly to the same conclusion: Hardy's murder was the work of a gang of Albanian drug smugglers. But for Hunkeler... continue

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Allmen and the Pink Diamond by Martin Suter EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
Description:
"Delightfully quirky and original, it feels like a Golden Age detective novel transposed, wonderfully, into the 21st century." --Peter James, author of Dead Simple and Dead Man's Time An unimaginably valuable pink diamond has gone missing and a mysterious Russian residing in Switzerland is suspected of having made off with the treasured jewel. But the investigative duo of Johann Friedrich von Allmen and his Guatemalan butler Carlos are on the case. Their search leads from London to Zurich to a grand hotel on the Baltic coast. Amorous adventures and diverting mishaps litter the path through a w... continue