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.

"Murder and madness" with Antoine Jaquier et Marie-Christine Horn.

Are murderers criminally insane? Or is there a killer in every one of us? Ask Lausanne-based Antoine Jaquier, winner of the 2016 Prix des lecteurs de la Ville de Lausanne and author of Ils sont tous morts and Avec les chiens (published by Age d’Homme), which places a serial child killer face-to-face with the fathers of his victims; and Marie-Christine Horn, author of Tout ce qui est rouge (Age d’Homme), whose novel brings the reader in the dark universe of prison psychiatry mixing art brut and madness following the tracks of a serial killer.