The Enigma of Room 622: A Novel [Paperback]

AWall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2022

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 weve ever read another novel quite like it. (We havent.) Fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley will hug this book in between chapters; the many readers who love Anthony Horowitzs mysteries will celebrate. And me? Ill be reading it again. A. J. Finn, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Woman in the Window

[The Enigma of Room 622is an] exhilarating tour de force The Wall Street Journal

A burnt-out writers retreat at a fancy Swiss hotel is interrupted by a murder mystery in this metafictional, meticulously crafted whodunit from theNew York Times bestselling author ofThe Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.

A writer named Jo?l, Switzerlands most prominent novelist, flees to the H?tel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publishers death, Jo?l 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, Jo?l and fellow guest Scarlett, acting as amateur sleuths, uncover a long-unsolved murder that transpired in the hotel's room 622. The attendant circumstances add layers of corporate intrigue: the succession of Switzerlands 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 622is a true mystery within a mysterya matryoshka doll of intrigueas precise as a Swiss watchand Dickers most diabolically addictive thriller yet.

Translated from the French by Robert Bononno

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