"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...

"A burnt-out writer's retreat at a fancy Swiss hotel is interrupted by a murder mystery in this metafictional, meticulously crafted whodunit from the internationally bestselling author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. A writer named Joël, Switzerland's most prominent novelist, arrives at the Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort nestled in the Swiss Alps, for a restful sojourn. Disheartened over his recent breakup and the death of his longtime...

When a group of Secret Service agents is massacred in Utah and the president of the United States is abducted, surviving agent Scot Harvath vows to avenge his murdered colleagues and find the kidnappers.

"A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl." --Amazon.com.

At a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821.

Join Heidi on her many adventures in the mountains with the goats and in the city with Clara and the kittens.

An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of Heidi, an orphan who builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, but after she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.

In Legacy of Silence, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain creates an unforgettable story of a remarkable family—and a deception that reaches across continents, oceans, and generations.
 
Caroline Hartzinger flees wartime Europe with a shattered life and a devastating secret. Pregnant and unwed, she arrives in America in 1939. Joel Hirsch offers marriage and respectability, hoping one day to earn

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After a fire damages his boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex and his friends move to the girls' school across the lake, where supernatural happenings are disturbing the peace, and in the meantime, more Van Helsing family secrets are revealed.

"Nestled in the Swiss Alps, VAMPS is the ultimate academy for the progeny of the wealthiest and most powerful vampire families. Unfortunately for Dillon, he's an outsider--to be more specific: he's a dhampir, a vampire who is half human. If he wants to survive beyond a single term, he's going to need to embrace his fangs. But blood never lies, and soon it becomes clear there is something special and deadly in Dillon's veins. As his power grows, so...