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The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist

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“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 Joël 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 émigré 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 Joël Dicker’s most diabolically addictive thriller yet.

Praise for Joël 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

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Weight 0.34 kg
Dimensions 4.2 × 13 × 19.6 cm
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Paperback
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576
Year Published

2023-6-8
Edition Number

1st edition
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1529425271
About The Author

Joël 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'Académie Française and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. It soon became a worldwide success in 2014, publishing in 42 countries and selling more than 3.5 million copies. In the UK it was a Times number one bestseller, and was chosen for the Richard and Judy Book Club as well as Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club.

In May 2017 his novel THE BALTIMORE BOYS, already making waves across Europe and number one in several countries, will be published for the first time in English. Both a sequel and a prequel to THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR, it will centres around traumatic events that blight the lives of the Baltimore branch of Marcus Goldman's family.

In the meantime Joël has become "brand ambassador" for the Citroen DS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTKep1n4kFU.
Review Quote

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 — A.J. Finn

Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path ― Sunday Express

Joël Dicker really knows how to tell a great story ― Valeurs Actuelles

The cleverly jigsawed plot pays homage to Agatha Christie ― Booklist
Back Cover Copy

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

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