The Enigma of Room 622

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

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

A Wall 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 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 Time s bestselling author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair . A writer named Jo?l, Switzerland's 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 publisher's 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 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