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 Times bestselling author of The Truth About the
Harry Quebert Affair.
A writer named Joël, Switzerland's most prominent novelist, flees to the
Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. Disheartened over a
recent breakup and his longtime publisher's death, Joël 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, Joël 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
