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. It all starts with a seemingly innocuous detail: at the Verbier, there is no room 622.īefore long, Joël and fellow guest Scarlett uncover a long-unsolved murder that transpired in the hotel's room 622. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publisher’s death, Joël hopes to rest. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowĪ 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.Ī writer named Joël, Switzerland’s most prominent novelist, flees to the Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. (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. “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.
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