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The Enigma of Room 622

The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist

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The Enigma of Room 622

By: Joël Dicker, Robert Bononno - translator
Narrated by: Chris Harper
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"Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path" Sunday Express

It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622.

This anomaly piques the interest of the writer Joël Dicker, Switzerland's most famous literary star, who is staying at the hotel to recover from a bad breakup, mourn the death of his longtime publisher, and begin his next novel. Before he knows it, Joël is coaxed out of his torpor by a fellow guest - Scarlett, a captivating aspiring novelist with a nose for intrigue, who swiftly uncovers the reason behind Room 622's deliberate erasure: an unsolved murder.

Meanwhile, in the wake of his father's passing, Macaire Ebezner is set to take over as president of the largest private bank in Switzerland. The succession captivates the news media, and the future looks bright, until Macaire learns that the bank's board plan to appoint one Lev Levovitch ­- Geneva's very own Jay Gatsby ­- in his place. What seemed a race to the top has just become a race against time . . .

A Russian doll of a mystery crafted with the precision of a Swiss watch, The Enigma of Room 622 is a diabolically addictive thriller in which a love triangle and a power struggle - fuelled by envy and betrayal ­- play out between Geneva and the Alps, as the truth twists and turns into something no reader will see coming.

Translated from the French by Roberto Bononno

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Critic reviews

In book after book, this astonishingly talented (and astonishingly young) author approaches genres we might dismiss as shopworn - the campus mystery, the family drama, the out-of-the-past whodunit - and with a flourish, whips them into spectacular new shapes. And in The Enigma of Room 622 - as you'll learn early on, there is no Room 622 - 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)
Dicker has the first-rate crime novelist's ability to lead his readers up the garden path
Joël Dicker really knows how to tell a great story
The cleverly jigsawed plot pays homage to Agatha Christie
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I listened in a few days and loved it. I enjoyed the story and the narration

I was captivated and found the characters balanced

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The plot is interesting and, even if complicated and occasionally hard to follow with all the flashbacks and leaps into the future, it’s worth persevering. The descriptions of the international banking world feel realistic to me.

What annoyed me terribly was the appalling pronunciation of French and other non-English words and names (e.g. chemin, Irina, Guisan and many, many others); this could have been easily done correctly from the start. Other than that, narrator was good and the translation sounded natural,

Story great, pronunciation of names and places horrendous

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Having read ‘The Truth about the Harry Quebert affair’, I as really looking forward to this Joel Dicker book. However, this as very disappointing and I really laboured through it. It seemed to be overly long in the story telling and with to much jumping about, back and forth in the time line it became needlessly messy for me. It was a good story but just tried to be too clever in its structure I think. A shame, as I had been so impressed by the previous experience from Joel

Disappointing for me.

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Was looking forward to this new Dicker. Not the easiest to listen to and follow the plot with frequent time changes, meandering, and poor narration especially on character voIcing and differentiation. Stuck it out though. Interesting conclusion. Would be better read to oneself from a hard copy.

Disappointing

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That’s all I like in murder mysteries. Brilliant! Great narration too! I always like it when the author tells us a story where he is part of it. Now that I finished the book, I really miss the characters, yes ALL of them!

Excellent!

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