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. This partially metafictional novel begins with Joel, who also happens to be Switzerland’s most prominent novelist, living in a world of trouble. 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. In his latest novel, The Enigma of Room 622, Joel Dicker does his best to find that fabled refuge at a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, but needless to say, nothing goes as planned for him.

It all starts with a seemingly innocuous detail: at the Verbier, there is no room 622.īefore long, Joël and fellow guest Scarlett uncover a long-unsolved murder that transpired in the hotel's room 622. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publisher's death, Joël hopes to rest. Like his previous works, it is a thriller. Three months later it was presented in Spanish, with translations by Amaya Garca Gallego and Mara Teresa Gallego Urrutia. Its original version in French was published in March 2020. ' exhilarating tour de force'–The Wall Street JournalĪ 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.Ī writer named Joël, Switzerland's most prominent novelist, flees to the Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. The riddle of room 622 is the latest novel by the Swiss writer Jol Dicker. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

(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. '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. A Wall Street Journal 'Best Mystery of 2022'Ī September 2022 Amazon Best of the Month Pick

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