Joël Dicker

The Enigma of Room 622

Sprecher: Harper, Chris / Übersetzer: Bononno, Robert

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 960 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798212034838
• Artikelnr.: 63990372

Autorenporträt

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.

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"Joël Dicker's innovative page-turner ... weds the allure of a jigsaw puzzle with the split-second timing of an Agatha Christie mystery.... [The Enigma of Room 622 is an] exhilarating tour de force" - Wall Street Journal

"This astonishingly smart, emotionally satisfying, and strangely intimate novel is not to be missed." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A tale of romance, masterful duplicity, and... [a] cleverly jigsawed plot, [The Enigma of Room 622 is both]... homage to Agatha Christie, and ... a touching farewell to Dicker's late publisher." - Booklist

"How is the latest Joël Dicker? ...Tension crackles on every page. Melodrama veers to suspense ... [Dicker] has mastered the genre." - Le Figaro

"A new meta-mystery from the Swiss author unfolds with uncanny precision and evolves from a hotel whodunnit into something more nebulous. The elegant surroundings bring to mind classic mysteries, with notes of subversion peppered throughout." - CrimeReads

Praise for previous title: "Joël Dicker is a bright . . . star of suspense." - Lisa Gardner

Praise for previous title: "Unimpeachably perfect.... It's [Dicker's] light touch and engaging voice that make [his] writing so infectious." - The New York Times Book Review

[Dicker] stages his drama as masquerade and, at curtain call, finally takes off the mask. In a novel where the clues are interwoven with such precision, Dicker's true loyalties are pronounced loud and clear: paternal love..., writing, his mentor Bernard,... Albert Cohen, Tolstoy, and García Márquez, and attachment to his city, Geneva. - La Tribune de Genève

In short... [The Enigma of Room 622 is] a simmering concoction that even Agatha Christie would find irresistible, ...[taking the reader] along for a dizzying ride. - Le Parisien

With The Enigma of Room 622, Dicker's strengths as a storyteller resurface once again ... we are caught in a fascinating assembly of clues -constructing and reconstructing scenes during which the characters disappear into an elaborate game of charades. - Le Journal du Dimanche

Even if means writing another page-turner, Jöel Dicker gives us his all, having as much fun playing with conventions as ever, and, in turn, elevating the detective novel to new heights - Le Soir

One of the most widely read Francophone authors in the world... [Dicker] knows how to captivate readers ... twist and turns ... meticulous investigations, he jumps back and forth in time, all the better to lose us yet drive us impatient for the final denouement. Pure reading pleasure. - Lire