L'heure du crime

Edelweiss noir – Swiss crime thrillers

French-language literature from Switzerland has been taking the literary world by storm, exciting its audience with an array of Swiss noir fiction. Paris should be on guard as these Swiss writers masterfully dip their quills in black – or sometimes blood red – ink in the heart of the French capital this summer. Chase away the gloom of Sunday night and savour the suspense, Swiss-style: meet at the Wanderlust at the appointed witching (and drinking) hour for original literary performances, readings, lectures and discussions between the writers and lovers of crime novels.

"What lies beneath Switzerland's perfect image" with Sébastien Meier, Marc Voltenauer and Corinne Jaquet.

What is hidden behind sublime Alpine landscapes, banks in Geneva and Swiss politeness? Our writers reveal all in their books – Sébastien Meier from Lausanne and author of Au nom du père (published by Zoé), who after Les ombres du métis exposes the hypocrisy of the multinationals based in the Lake Geneva region; Geneva-born Marc Voltenauer, author of Le Dragon du Muveran (Plaisir de Lire), a metaphysical thriller that adapts the Nordic recipe for detective novels to the Alps of Vaud; and Corinne Jaquet's L’ombre de l’Aigle (Slatkine), a novel that explores  Geneva's neighbourhood and the underside of the author's beloved city.