Kim Hays
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Kim Hays

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Kim Hays, a citizen of both Switzerland and the United States, has written four books in the Polizei Bern series featuring Swiss homicide detectives Linder and Donatelli. Hays grew up in San Juan and Vancouver and has a PhD in cultural sociology from UC Berkeley. Thirty-seven years ago, she moved to Bern, her Swiss husband’s hometown. There, she worked as a freelance journalist and a cross-cultural coach for expatriates at multinational companies all over Switzerland before becoming a mystery writer. The first Linder and Donatelli book, PESTICIDE (2022), was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger Award and the Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery. PESTICIDE was followed by SONS AND BROTHERS (2023) and A FONDNESS FOR TRUTH (2024), which won second place in the Indie Reader Discovery Awards for Fiction and was a BookLife Editor’s Pick. The fourth book in the series, SPLINTERED JUSTICE, came out in April 2025.
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