He’s handsome, Swiss, and the king of black literature today. With more than 15 million readers, also has the approval of critics. This is demonstrated by his record, and it is that Joël Dicker is, at 36 years old and with seven published novels, winner of the: Grand Prize for Novel of the French Academy, Goncourt des Lycéens Prize, Lire Prize and Alicante Noir International Prize, among others. The June 23 His long-awaited new intrigue arrives in bookstores that will keep lovers of good mystery in suspense this summer and we review the author’s best-valued novels for anyone who wants to start in his world (or continue it).
The Alaskan Sanders case
“I know what you’ve done.” This is the message found in the pants pocket of Alaska Sanders, whose body appears on April 3, 1999 at the edge of the lake in Mount Pleasant, a small town in New Hampshire. The key to the new and exciting investigation that, eleven years after putting their alleged culprits behind barsreunites writer Marcus Goldman and Sergeant Perry Gahalowood.
This time they will have the invaluable help of a young police officer, Lauren Donovan, determined to solve the plot of secrets that hides behind the case. As they discover who Alaska Sanders really wasthe ghosts of the past will also resurface and, among them, especially that of Harry Quebert.
This is the premise of The Alaskan Sanders casethe expected continuation of the phenomenon The truth about the Harry Quebert case.
The Alaska Sanders Case (Literatures)
The truth about the Harry Quebert case
The truth about the Harry Quebert case In its day, it was awarded the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize, the French Academy Grand Prize for Novel, the Lire Prize for the best novel in the French language and, in Spain, it was chosen Best Book of the Year by the readers of The country and won the What to Read Award for the best translated book and the 20th San Clemente Award given by high school students from various Galician institutes. Successfully translated into forty-two languageshas become a global literary phenomenon.
A suspense novel in three stages: 1975, 1998 and 2008, about the murder of a fifteen-year-old girl in the small town of Aurora, New Hampshire. In 2008, Marcus Goldman, a young writer, visits his mentor (Harry Quebert, author of an acclaimed novel) and discovers that he had a secret relationship with Nola Kellergan, whose corpse will soon be found buried in his garden. Harry is then arrested on charges of murder.
Marcus begins to investigate and write a book on the case. As he seeks to prove Harry’s innocence, a web of secrets comes to light. The truth only comes at the end of a long, intricate and exciting journey.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (Best Seller)
The disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
six hundred and fifty pages that start with on the night of July 30, 1994. The quiet town of Orphea, in the Hamptons, attends the grand opening of the theater festival. But the mayor is late… Meanwhile, a man walks the empty streets looking for his wife, until find his body in front of the mayor’s house. Inside, the entire family has been killed.
Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott, two bright young New York cops, solve the case. But twenty years later, at Rosenberg’s police farewell ceremony, journalist Stephanie Mailer confronts him: she claims that Dereck and Jesse had the wrong killer even though the proof was right in front of their eyes, and claims to have key information. Days later, it disappears.
Thus begins this colossal thriller, that advances in the past and the present at a dizzying paceadding plots, characters, surprises and twists, shaking and precipitating the reader without possible brake towards the unexpected and unforgettable outcome.
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer (Best Seller)
The riddle of room 622
Winning novel of the Alicante Noir International Award and one of those chosen in our list of the best books of 2020. One night in December, a corpse lies on the floor of room 622 of the Palace of Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps . The police investigation will never come to an end and the passage of time will make many forget what happened.
Years later, the writer Joël Dicker arrives at that same hotel to recover from a sentimental breakup. He doesn’t imagine that she will end up investigating the old crime, and he won’t do it alone: Scarlett, the beautiful guest and aspiring novelist from the next room, will accompany him on the search while she also tries to learn the keys to writing a good book.
What happened that night at the Palace de Verbier? is the big question of this thriller diabolical, built with the precision of a Swiss watch. Joël Dicker finally takes us to his native country to narrate a police investigation in which a love triangle, power games, betrayal and envy are mixed in a not so calm Switzerland, where the truth is very different from everything we have imagined.
The enigma of room 622 (Literatures)
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