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" A September 2022 Amazon Best of the Month PickDicker 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.8212 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 force8211 The Wall Street JournalA 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 Times bestselling author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. A writer named Jo235 l, Switzerland's most prominent novelist, flees to the H244 tel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publisher's death, Jo235 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, Jo235 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 intrigue8211 as precise as a Swiss watch8211 and Dicker's most diabolically addictive thriller yet. Translated from the French by Robert Bononno "
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Biographisches: " JOEL DICKER was born in Geneva in 1985, where he later studied Law. His first novel was awarded the Prix des Ecrivains Genevois. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair ( La Verite sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert ) was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Française and the Prix Goncourt des Lyceens. SAM TAYLOR is a novelist and journalist who has lived in France for more than a decade. His first literary translation was Laurence Binet's HHhH , which was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. " Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 1, 2022 Swiss writer Dicker's latest thriller concerns a corpse in a hotel room and a fight for the top job at a private Geneva bank. As in his breakout novel, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2014), Dicker has a framing story here about a writer. Only this one is named Jo�l, and he refers frequently to his beloved publisher, Bernard de Fallois, the name of the real author's publisher, who shepherded Quebert and died in 2018. Whatever tribute was intended, though, it seems a dubious one given the novel's problems. In the framing story, the writer stumbles on an unsolved murder and investigates while using the material to write his latest thriller, which is--you guessed it. As for the corpse, the crime occurred when a new bank president was about to be named. The likeliest candidate, the former bank chief's son, may be sidelined because 15 years earlier he traded his shares to a shady financier in exchange for something outside the banking world (the potential for spoilers makes it hard to be more precise). The heart of the story concerns a love triangle as well as the love/hate between fathers, or father surrogates, and sons. But that worthy heart is smothered in layers of adipose backstory, and the tortuous plot proves nearly impossible to follow given the constant shifts among, and fuzziness of, the three main time frames. Fast readers may get the most enjoyment from all this if they can fly lightly over the clunky dialogue, flat characters, improbable behavior (Sagamore, swallowing the last slice of pizza, stood up), repetitions, and clich�s, and so quickly motor past the first 400 pages to the point where the investigation finally picks up some speed. But that pleasure is short-lived, for the plot twists soon take over and quickly evolve from surprising to utterly implausible. A flawed outing that may disappoint even Dicker's fans. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 15, 2022 Jo�l, a bestselling author, retreats to the Swiss Alps' luxurious Hotel Verbier to mourn the loss of his cherished publisher. Scarlett, the next room's alluring occupant and a welcome distraction, recruits him to investigate the Verbier enigma: the hotel has renamed Room 622 to Room 621 to conceal the scene of an unsolved murder. During a pivotal Ebenzer Bank conference, Ebenzer scion Macaire discovered that a board member, Tarnogol, was scheming to thwart Macaire's imminent election to bank president by electing his rival, Lev Levovitch, instead. Macaire, an undercover operative for Swiss banking espionage division P-30, was ordered to protect his operations by eliminating Tarnogol, but before he could, another board member was killed and Tarnogol disappeared. The killer's identity and tragic motive are shrouded in a tale of romance, masterful duplicity, and misguided loyalty born 15 years earlier when Macaire,his wife, Anastasia,and Levovitch met. The cleverly jigsawed plot, from the author of The Truth about Harry Quebert (2014), pays homage to Agatha Christie, and the final moments reveal a touching farewell to Dicker's late publisher and friend, Bernard de Fallois. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from October 3, 2022 The discovery of a body in room 622 of the H244" Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: October 4, 2022 Nearly a decade ago, Dicker took the international literary community by storm with The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair , a clever, out-of-nowhere hit. The author's overnight success and status as an in-demand thriller writer looking for material for his next book forms the basis for this metafictional novel. He finds inspiration in a story of financiers jockeying for position as president of a prestigious Geneva bank and their connection to a murder in a hotel room. Macaire Ebezner, the would-be heir to his family's banking empire, sold his shares 15 years ago, presumably losing his father's trust in the process, and now has to rely on a series of dubious schemes and shady alliances to ensure his ascension to the throne. These details are discovered and narrated by a writer named Jo�l, who is still mourning the death of the publisher who helped turn Harry Quebert into a sensation, and his assistant Scarlett. This layering of truth onto fiction promises depth, but it's not clear what this adds to the central mystery of the victim in Room 622 and who killed him, beyond an inflated page count. VERDICT Twists abound in this elaborate mystery, but readers will have to power through clich�d dialogue, jarring time shifts, and thin characterization to enjoy them. --Michael PucciCopyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
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