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The Enigma of Room 622 (Paperback)

(author), (translator)
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Paperback 576 Pages
Published: 08/06/2023
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Waterstones Says

From the author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair comes a fiendish, intricately structured mystery centred on dynastic intrigue at a Swiss bank and a mysterious hotel with a missing room.

It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622.

This anomaly piques the interest of the writer Joel Dicker, Switzerland's most famous literary star, who is staying at the hotel to recover from a bad breakup, mourn the death of his longtime publisher, and begin his next novel. Before he knows it, Joel is coaxed out of his torpor by a fellow guest - Scarlett, a captivating aspiring novelist with a nose for intrigue, who swiftly uncovers the reason behind Room 622's deliberate erasure: an unsolved murder.

Meanwhile, in the wake of his father's passing, Macaire Ebezner is set to take over as president of the largest private bank in Switzerland. The succession captivates the news media, and the future looks bright, until Macaire learns that the bank's board plan to appoint one Lev Levovitch - Geneva's very own Jay Gatsby - in his place. What seemed a race to the top has just become a race against time...

A Russian doll of a mystery crafted with the precision of a Swiss watch, The Enigma of Room 622 is a diabolically addictive thriller in which a love triangle and a power struggle - fuelled by envy and betrayal - play out between Geneva and the Alps, as the truth twists and turns into something no reader will see coming.

Translated from the French by Roberto Bononno.

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781529425277
Number of pages: 576
Weight: 390 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 42 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

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

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kendrafortune

“Not for me”

I read a couple of chapters before coming to the conclusion that this really wasn't for me. I didn't like the style, which seemed overly verbose, and I didn't like the main character either.

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Vivienne O'Regan

“A nested Russian doll of a financial thriller”

“According to Bernard, a great novel is a painting–a world offered to the reader who allows herself to be wrapped up in the immense illusion created by the author’s brushstrokes. .”

My thanks to Quercus Books... More

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“So disappointed”

2.5 rounded down

I’ve just been on the choo-choo train to the land of disappointment especially as I really really enjoyed The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, The Baltimore Boys though it has to be said less... More

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