Vikki’s Comments (group member since Dec 01, 2021)

Vikki’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

Switzerland:

The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Crime, Mystery, Thriller)

Smiley's People by John le Carré (Espionage, Spy Thriller) Also set in Paris, London & Germany

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Classic, Fiction) Also set in Prague

I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch (Classic, Fiction)

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho (Contemporary, Fiction, Romance)

The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian (Espionage, Mystery, Spy Thriller) 1st in series

Dead Centre by Andy McNab (Military, Suspense, Thriller) #14 in series

A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (Mystery, Spy Thriller) #4 in series

Damnation by Peter Beck (Thriller)

The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Fiction, Mystery, Thriller)

Small World by Martin Suter (Fiction)

Command Authority by Tom Clancy (Espionage, Spy Thriller) #9 in series

The Last Weynfeldt

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Spy Trap A lot of it is set in Switzerland

The Night Manager by John le Carré (Thriller) - Zurich

The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (Horror) Switzerland

Heidi

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Horror, Sci-Fi) {Also set in Switzerland & Scotland}

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Classic, Science Fiction) 1945 Dresden, GE

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Classic, Historical Fiction) 1914, Also set in 1918 France

The Quiet Twin and The Crooked Maid - - set in Vienna before and after WW II, respectively, they contain many of the same characters.

Man's Search for Meaning

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

Germany:

Time Heals No Wounds
The Northern Cross
Your Perfect Year
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Zoo Station
The Collini Case
Hard Knocks
The Hangman's Daughter
Snow White Must Die
The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (partly Germany, partly Italy)
The Odessa File
The Air Raid Killer and A Thousand Devils
Death in Berlin
The Man From Berlin
A Trace of Smoke
Black Roses

Austria:
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" (partly set in Austria, also France, Ukraine)
Love in Three Quarter Time
Rose in Three Quarter Time
Christmas in Three Quarter Time
The Mozart Code
Vienna at Nightfall

March Violets by Philip Kerr (Historical Fiction, Thriller) - {Berlin}

Zoo Station by David Downing (Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller) {Berlin}

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek (Fiction, Literature)

Voices of the Dead by Peter Leonard (Mystery, Thriller)

The Third Man by Graham Greene (Mystery)

A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis (Mystery) 1st in series

1632 by Eric Flint (Fantasy, Science Fiction)

The Sleepwalkers by Paul Grossman (Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller) 1st in series

Rosa by Jonathan Rabb (Historical Fiction, Mystery)

The Blue Fox by Sjón (Fantasy, Historical Fiction)

The Wren Hunt and The Wickerlight

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (historical, Spanish flu)

The Good Son by Paul McVeigh (Fiction, Literature)

Mystery Man by Colin Bateman (Mystery)

Borderlands by Brian McGilloway (Mystery) Tyrone-Donegal Border

The Heart's Invisible Furies
Three Bags Full

Cozy mystery series by Carlene O'Connor
Murder in an Irish Village is the first in this series

Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole

What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon

Ireland by Frank Delaney

The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey

Death with Interruptions by José Saramago (Fantasy??)

Blindness by José Saramago (Science Fiction)

Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba (Horror)

The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Historical Fiction, Mystery) 1990 Madrid, Spain

Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer (YA, Thriller) - Canary Islands

Night Train to Lisbon

Portugal:
A Small Death in Lisbon
Equator (includes Sao Tome & Principe and India)
Marry in Haste
Shadows On The Water

Spain:
The Blind Man of Seville
The Long Siesta
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (and London)
The Spanish Bride
Checkmate

Spain
Origin by Dan Brown
The Spanish Promise by Karen Swan
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Muse by Jessie Burton - partially set in Spain

The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs (Horror)

Styx by Bavo Dhooge (Fantasy {Magical Realism??}, Mystery, Thriller)

Outsider in Amsterdam by Janwillem van de Wetering (Mystery) - Netherlands

The Vanishing by Tim Krabbé (Mystery, Thriller) - Netherlands

Netherlands

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Belgium:

Pieter Aspe's Van In series starting with The Square of Revenge

An Infamous Army

Netherlands:

Betty Neels has a number of romances set in the Netherlands

Luxembourg:
The Candidate