Book description
A burnt-out thriller writer desperate to regain his creative spark becomes intrigued by a decade-old unsolved murder at a glamorous Alpine hotel in this meticulously crafted novel-a matryoshka doll of a mystery built with the precision of a Swiss watch-from the internationally bestselling author of The Truth About the Harry…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Enigma of Room 622 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Joël Dicker is another author I am a fan of, having followed his career since his debut, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.
Like my second recommendation, it features the author as a semi-fictionalized character in the book. The setting of the novel is a grand hotel in the Swiss Alps and revolves around another mystery with multiple timelines as the narrative shifts back and forth.
The writing is concise, spare even, and comes to a very satisfying ending by the time of the book’s conclusion.
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