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.

"The hypermodern thriller" with Mark Zellweger, Quentin Mouron et Frédéric Jaccaud.

How can a novel fuse such elements of modern life as geopolitics, the digital age, and the mafia? Discussion with Mark Zellweger, former Swiss intelligence officer and author of geopolitical thrillers such as the recent Double jeu (published by Eaux troubles); Frédéric Jaccaud, curator at the Maison d’Ailleurs in Yverdon, whose fourth novel Exil (Gallimard) plunges the reader into a nightmarish Silicon Valley; and Quentin Mouron, who follows US drug cartels with his book L’Age de l’héroïne.