Murderers, motives, false trails - who will win the Swiss Crime Thriller Award 2025
26.8.2025
Translation: machine translated
Body, murderer and investigator - murder weapon, motive and a few false leads. That's all you need for a good crime thriller. The best will be honoured in October.
«Who did it?» This simple question is enough to make crime novels the most popular fictional books on the Swiss book market. Crime novels and thrillers accounted for 60 per cent of total sales in 2024. This figure, broken down into subgenres, shows that regional crime novels were particularly popular. This category alone accounted for 30 per cent of books sold.
In view of this popularity, it is almost surprising that the Swiss Crime Fiction Prize is only being awarded for the third time this year. Recently, the Association for Swiss Crime Fiction announced the names of the nominated works and their authors for the 2025 Crime Fiction Prize.
Two juries have been set up.
Two juries from German- and French-speaking Switzerland have selected ten works each from all the works submitted and placed them on their nomination lists.
The 10 nominated German-language works
The 10 nominated French-language works
Of the nominated French-language books, we do not currently carry the following five works in our range:
- Christophe Barraud, «La Tête hors de l'eau», Editions de la Rive
- Gérald Brizon, «Une balle dans le bide», Cousu mouche
- Hélène Reichhardt, «Glaces pillées», Montsalvens
- Emmanuelle Robert, «Dormez-en Peilz», Slatkine
- Alexandre Sadeghi, «Le sutra des damnés», Slatkine
The award ceremony for the 3rd Swiss Crime Fiction Prize will take place on 18 October as part of the Crime Fiction Festival in Bern.
Oliver Fischer
Teamleader Editorial
Oliver.Fischer@digitecgalaxus.chGlobetrotter, hiker, wok world champion (not in the ice channel), word acrobat and photo enthusiast.
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