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
