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.

"How to commit murder" with Olivia Gerig and Nicolas Feuz.

How does a writer choose how to kill off their first victim? Does a good killer get the job done fast? Why is death a good thing in detective novels? Find out more with Olivia Gerig and L’Ogre du Salève (Encre Fraîche) and Nicolas Feuz, a federal and cantonal prosecutor of Geneva and author of Les Bouches and EMORATA: Pour quelques grammes de chair (Nicolas Feuz), which won the 2015 Prix du Meilleur Polar auto-édité and is the prequel to his Massaï trilogy.