The Enigma of Room 622

"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