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 Journal A
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
