Kim Hays

Kim Hays is a dual citizen of Switzerland and the US who lives in Bern with her Swiss husband. Before her marriage, she lived in San Juan, Vancouver, and Stockholm, as well as around the States. Hays has done a variety of jobs, including supervising an assembly line in a truck engine factory, lecturing in sociology, and coaching expat employees for multinational firms. Her debut police procedural, Pesticide, was shortlisted for the 2020 Debut Dagger award by the Crime Writers’ Association and published by Seventh Street Books in 2022 as the first mystery in the Polizei Bern series. The second in the series, Sons and Brothers, comes out April 2023. Hays has a BA from Harvard and a PhD from the University of California-Berkeley.