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The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist
Joel Dicker
Switzerland, Crime & mystery, Classic crime, Thriller / suspense, Fiction in translation
A Russian doll of a mystery crafted with the precision of a Swiss watch by the bestselling author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
"Spectacular . . . drops the reader through one trapdoor into another" A.J. FINN
It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622.
This anomaly piques the interest of Joel Dicker, Switzerland's most famous literary star, who flees to the Verbier to recover from a bad breakup, mourn the death of his publisher, and begin his next novel.
Before he knows it, he's coaxed out of his slump by a fellow guest, who quickly uncovers the reason behind Room 622's erasure: an unsolved murder. The attendant circumstances: a love triangle and a power struggle at the heart of Switzerland's largest private bank, a mysterious counter-intelligence unit known only as P-30, and a shadowy emigre with more money than God.
A Russian doll of a mystery crafted with the precision of a Swiss watch, The Enigma of Room 622 is Joel Dicker's most diabolically addictive thriller yet.
Praise for Joel Dicker
"It's that most engaging of treats, a big, fat, intelligent thriller" SIMON MAYO
"Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path" Sunday Express
Translated from the French by Robert Bononno
Praise for The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist
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Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path - Sunday Express
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Joel Dicker really knows how to tell a great story - Valeurs Actuelles
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In book after book, this astonishingly talented (and astonishingly young) author approaches genres we might dismiss as shopworn - the campus mystery, the family drama, the out-of-the-past whodunit - and with a flourish, whips them into spectacular new shapes. And in The Enigma of Room 622 - as you'll learn early on, there is no Room 622 - Dicker salutes Agatha Christie even as he drops the reader through one trapdoor into another, so that by the end, we doubt we've ever read another novel quite like it. (We haven't.) Fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley will hug this book in between chapters; the many readers who love Anthony Horowitz's mysteries will celebrate. And me? I'll be reading it again
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Joel Dicker
JoA l Dicker was born in Geneva in 1985, where he studied Law. The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair was nominated for the Prix Goncourt and won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'AcadA mie FranA aise and the Prix Goncourt des LycA ens. It has sold more than 3.6 million copies in 42 countries. The Baltimore Boys, at once a prequel and a sequel, has sold more than 750,000 in France. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair is now a major SkyWitness series starring Patrick Dempsey.
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