Swiss Mysteries

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 Leman, a young woman has been found stabbed to death.

A lost WWII letter found in a Swiss cave sparks a perilous search through Switzerland and Italy. As Andreas and Luisa uncover long-buried secrets of love and betrayal, they realize some truths are protected at any cost. Andreas, a Swiss sculptor and stonemason, grieving the loss of his wife from three years ago, discovers an old, abandoned backpack in a cave during his hike in the Swiss mountains. What he finds within the backpack—a letter written by a young Jewish refugee during the Second World War to his pregnant wife in Italy—sets him on a quest with his friend, Luisa, to find out ...

It's not unusual for spies to have secrets, but Henry Hunter has more than most, and after he is stopped by British Intelligence at Croydon airport on the eve of the Second World War, he finds that he has even more. From Switzerland he embarks on a series of increasingly perilous missions into Nazi Germany, all while having to cope with different identities and competing spymasters.

A rising gymnast disappears mid-flip in the Swiss Alps, and the only clue is a gold medal left dangling in the snow. While Mia and Eli investigate the frosty mystery, the Grannies tackle their own frozen fiasco-a suspicious injury at the town skating rink. With Toby sniffing out suspects on two continents, this mother-son-dog trio must race the clock before medals turn to murder.

Professor Monroe, did you kill your wife? Professor Robert Monroe's wife has vanished from their 5-star hotel in Gstaad, and no one saw a thing. Was she kidnapped? Or did she run off with the handsome Italian she and Robert partied with the night before? BookShots LIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES...

This espionage and spy thriller pits government assassin Ari Cohen and ex-Navy SEAL David Gray in a political conspiracy against their long-despised rival the Raven, an ex-mob hit man. The terrorist's plot? A cyberattack on the American dollar.

On May 4th, 1998, occurred one of the most bloody crimes ever committed in the Vatican city: the body of the new commander of the Swiss Guard Alois Estermann, his wife Gladys Meza Romero and the vice Corporal Cedric Tornay were found dead in a pool of blood. There is an official reconstruction and an official truth for this terrible crime, but many people are still wondering how things really went. Pezzan and Brunoro retrace step by step this story to try to understand if there may be an alternative truth to the one established by the courts of the Holy See, in order to untangle one of the ...

Donna Leigh is a menopausal former ad exec. When Donna is drawn into the friendship between her husband Jon and Swiss Olympic Gold Medalist, Dominique Gisin, she decides to explore her own Swiss ancestry. With the help of husband Jon and advice from Dominique they are able to discover an existing family with blood ties to Donna. And so, the adventure begins. As they continue to learn about Donna’s Swiss relatives, they are stunned by the fact that the family’s 16-year old daughter is beginning to pursue a ski racing career after overcoming some overwhelming physical odds. This can be no...

Sono circa le nove di sera del 4 maggio 1998 quando una suora sente dei rumori di colpi di arma da fuoco provenire da un appartamento non lontano dal Palazzo Apostolico di Roma. La suora corre e trova la porta dell'appartamento aperta. Si affaccia all'interno e scopre così uno dei più gravi delitti mai compiuti all'interno della città del Vaticano: in un lago di sangue trova il corpo del neo comandante delle guardie svizzere Alois Estermann, di sua moglie Gladys Meza Romero e del vice caporale Cedric Tornay.