Joel Dicker: The Mystery of Number 622

The writer goes to rest in a luxurious mountain hotel, but instead of rest, he unravels a mysterious crime committed there many years ago. This crazy story has it all - a corpse on the front page, a love triangle, a bluff and theatrical effects involving wealthy financiers and heirs of a Russian noble family. Who is the killer? Certainly not the one (not that, not those) whom the most thoughtful reader will appoint to this role. The intrigue winds like a serpentine in the Swiss Alps, the 600-page novel keeps you in suspense from the first to the last line. It´s no surprise that the novel is one of the top ten most successful books written in French in 2020, and its circulation is rapidly approaching a million.