Mountain air, a luxurious hotel, helpful staff, and an unsolved murder.
A gripping new detective story from Joël Dicker, winner of the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Prix Goncourt des Lycées, author of the acclaimed bestsellers 'The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair' and 'The Book of Baltimores.'

The plot of Joël Dicker's new novel develops rapidly: on the very first page, a waiter at a fashionable Swiss hotel finds the body of one of the guests in room 622. Many years later, a young writer moves into room 623, having come to the slopes of the Alps to get over a breakup with his lover and the death of a close friend. The hero begins to study the details of this old case, more to distract himself from his own problems, but almost immediately finds himself at the center of a vast web of intrigue, dashed hopes, dynastic marriages, and financial fraud. The stakes in this complex, multi-layered game are money and power. And to win, players will do literally anything. The narrative alternates between the present day and the past, to the time periods leading up to and following the murder. Thus, chapter by chapter, page by page, the hero gets closer and closer to solving the mystery, piecing together all the pieces of this typically Swiss murder.