A devilishly twisty standalone thriller from the author of THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT
AFFAIR "Spectacular . . . drops the reader through one trapdoor into another " A.J. FINN
"Weds the allure of a jigsaw puzzle with the split-second timing of an Agatha Christie mystery"
Wall Street Journal 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. READER REVIEWS "One of the best books I've read
in a long time!" "The twists are surprising in a good way where I actually did shocked
pikachu face several times" Translated from the French by Robert Bononno