Insidious traps and a delightful atmosphere of mystery!
A popular young writer arrives at the luxurious Palace Verbier hotel, lost in the Swiss Alps, to relax, collect his thoughts, relive the separation from his beloved and the death of his close friend and publisher. Luxurious views from which breathtaking, sun-drenched, immersed in the frosty mountain air, terraces, a pool with a jacuzzi, fireplaces in the rooms and the soft twilight of the bar are the perfect place to forget about all the worries and hardships. But by chance, the hero finds out that a mysterious murder took place in the next room 622 many years ago. Out of curiosity, he begins to make inquiries and finds himself drawn into an incredible and dangerous maelstrom of conspiracies and intrigues, in which Swiss bankers, heirs of Russian noble families, omnipotent special services and desperate adventurers are intertwined.
Mountain air, luxury hotel, helpful staff and unsolved murder.
New exciting detective story from the laureate of the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Goncourt Lyceum Prize, the author of the acclaimed bestsellers «The Truth About the Harry Quebert Case» and «The Book of Baltimore» — Joel Dicker.
The plot of Joel Dicker’s new novel is developing rapidly: already on the very first page, a waiter of a fashionable Swiss hotel finds in room 622 the corpse of one of the guests. Many years later, room 623 is occupied by a young writer who came to the slopes of the Alps to survive the separation from his beloved and the death of a close friend. The hero begins to study the details of this old case — rather in order to distract himself from his own problems, but almost immediately finds himself in the center of a huge web of intrigues, broken hopes, dynastic marriages and financial machinations. The stake in this complex, multi-level game is money and power. And for the sake of winning, players will literally do anything. The narrative either moves to our days, or takes the reader into the past, into time periods preceding and following the murder. So, chapter by chapter, page by page, the hero gets closer and closer to the solution, putting together all the fragments of this purely Swiss murder.
© Moose Publishing — Paris 2020
© M. Zonina, translation into Russian, 2021
© A. Bondarenko, decoration, layout, 2021
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