The Alaska Sanders Affair: A Novel [Paperback]

AWall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2024

“IfThe Truth About the Harry Quebert Affairread like Gatsby by way of David Lynch, thenThe Alaska Sanders AffairrecallsTrue Detective: there's something both classic and daring about it. One of the world's most original voices in crime fiction.” —A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window and End of Story

“The Alaska Sanders Affair ...transcends pigeonholing with its abundance of plot, subplots and melodramatic U-turns ... everything seems to be connected ... [and] Mr. Dicker casts an undeniable spell.” —Wall Street Journal

The thrilling new whodunit and suspense novel from Joël Dicker, master of the plot twist and the author ofThe Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairandThe Enigma of Room 622.

April 1999. The body of Alaska Sanders is found on the shore of a lake near the quiet town of Mount Pleasant, New Hampshire. In this gripping small town mystery, the young woman’s death rocks the community, but the murder is quickly solved. Within days, a suspect is identified and soon convicted. Case closed. Or so it seemed. . . .

Eleven years later, Marcus Goldman, celebrity author and amateur sleuth, picks up a thread that will unravel not only the “open and shut” cold case of Alaska Sanders, but the very fabric of his best friend,–Sergeant Perry Gahalowood–’s life. Gahalowood, who led the original Alaska Sanders investigation, is hell-bent on finding the truth and setting the record straight. Teaming up with Marcus, he hopes to find redemption by solving the most intricate and trying murder mystery of his career.

Set both before and after the events of his phenomenal worldwide bestsellerThe Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair,Dicker&#lÓ$