Little does Joel know that his expertise in the art of the thriller will come in handy when he finds himself investigating the crime. Years later, the writer Joel Dicker, Switzerlands most famous literary ingenue, arrives at that same hotel to recover from a bad breakup, mourn the death of his longtime publisher, and begin his next novel. A police investigation begins without definite end, and public interest wanes with the passage of time. 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.About the Book One night in December, a corpse is found in Room 622 of the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. 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. Before long, Joël and fellow guest Scarlett uncover a long-unsolved murder that transpired in the hotel's room 622. It all starts with a seemingly innocuous detail: at the Verbier, there is no room 622. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publisher’s death, Joël hopes to rest.
A writer named Joël, Switzerland’s most prominent novelist, flees to the Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window " 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. (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. 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.
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