Name: The Enigma of Room 622: A Novel
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Author: Joël Dicker
ISBN: 9780063098817

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joël Dicker

Translated by

Robert Bononno

Publisher

Harpervia

Language

English

Pages

592

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm

Weight

0.74 kg.

ISBN13

9780063098817

Synopsis "The Enigma of Room 622: A Novel "

A September 2022 Amazon Best of the Month Pick"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."--A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window "[The Enigma of Room 622 is an] exhilarating tour de force"-The Wall Street JournalA burnt-out writer's retreat at a fancy Swiss hotel is interrupted by a murder mystery in this metafictional, meticulously crafted whodunit from the New York Times bestselling author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.A writer named Joël, Switzerland's most prominent novelist, flees to the Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publisher's death, Joël hopes to rest. However, his plans quickly go awry. It all starts with a seemingly innocuous detail: at the Verbier, there is no room 622. Before long, Joël and fellow guest Scarlett uncover a long-unsolved murder that transpired in the hotel's room 622. The attendant circumstances: the succession of Switzerland's largest private bank, a mysterious counterintelligence operation called P-30, and a most disreputable sabotage of hotel hospitality. A European phenomenon, The Enigma of Room 622 is a matryoshka doll of intrigue-as precise as a Swiss watch-and Dicker's most diabolically addictive thriller yet.Translated from the French by Robert Bononno

Joël Dicker

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Joël Dicker (Geneva, Switzerland, 1985) is a Swiss writer in the French language who rose to international fame with La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert (2012), an editorial phenomenon translated into more than 30 languages that established him as a master of the literary thriller. Educated in Law at the University of Geneva after studying Playwriting in Paris, Dicker debuted with Los últimos días de nuestros padres (2010), but it was the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize and the Grand Prize of the French Academy for Harry Quebert that catapulted him to success. His narrative is characterized by ingenious twists, complex structures, and the creation of addictive suspense.

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