The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist

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Anastasia's mother was determined to marry her two daughters off to men of great wealth -- and the Gala Weekend, into which she snuck them in, was an ideal place to find an appropriate match. Ultimately, it feels like an outlandish setting, the only kind which could have allowed for the proper development of the novel’s plot. Before long, Joël and fellow guest Scarlett uncover a long-unsolved murder that transpired in the hotel’s room 622. It was compelling and the narration was brilliant enough to make you forget some clichés here and there. While these jumps in the narrative can at times be confusing and coming a little too often, in my opinion they only served to reinforce the general ambience, highlighting just how peculiar of a world we’ve landed in.

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Macaire understands that: "It had all begun to unravel fifteen years earlier", when his grandfather died and the presidency went to his father -- and when both Lev and Anastasia's paths first crossed with each other and with him. Desde el momento en el que Joël como personaje llega y empieza a hacer sus pesquisas, pasando por el punto en el que sospechas que tu propia sombra sea la culpable de aquel asesinado, y llegando a la etapa en la que todas las conversaciones, todas las observaciones y todas las pistas encajan y te apuntan al asesino, es un libro espectacular. Along the way the reader is strung along in a long, complex narrative involving Switzerland’s elite, family intrigues and long-hidden secrets. Como en todas sus obras nada es lo que parece y no vas a darte cuenta de lo que realmente ha pasado hasta dos páginas antes del final.In his latest novel, The Enigma of Room 622, Joel Dicker does his best to find that fabled refuge at a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, but needless to say, nothing goes as planned for him. A pompous effort hindered further by a soulless translation, it is rare to encounter a novel where everything is working against itself, and I genuinely don't know who could find enjoyment out of Joël Dicker's The Enigma of Room 622 (the US edition). Big Island, LA connects the dots between a heist gone wrong at a police shooting range and corporate greed and political corruption, leaving a former combat marine and an agoraphobic crime reporter to sort out the mystery. Bernard de Fallois died in 2018, and with The Enigma of Room 622 Dicker pays homage to his publisher, mentor and friend. Sorprendente e inesperado, no es una historia con buenos y malos, cada uno tiene sus luces y sus sombras, es una historia que habla de bondad, de amor, de bajos instintos, de egoismo, de dinero.

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El autor se introduce en la historia relatándonos sus supuestas pesquisas para resolver el misterio principal mientras va escribiendo la propia historia, aprovechando para homenajear a Bernard de Fallois, su editor, fallecido a principios de 2018. The Enigma of Room 622 by Joel Dicker is certainly an unconventional mystery novel, but one which rewards any reader with patience and a good sense of appreciation for long-winded investigations into the deep past. Porque no dejan de seguirnos, bailan y brillan en la oscuridad de la noche justo encima de nuestras cabezas”. Before long, Joël and fellow guest Scarlett uncover a long-unsolved murder that transpired in the hotel's room 622.So you need a lot of twists and bumps, and to achieve this he splits the branches of his character’s lives so much that the tips reach the stratosphere. At the beginning of The Enigma of Room 622 author Joël Dicker looks back to recent times, when he was working on a novel about longtime publisher, Bernard de Fallois, of Éditions de Fallois, shortly after Bernard's 2018 death, and beginning an affair with new next-door neighbor Sloane.

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But its really the way the characters talk to each other, its soap opera dialogue not language that belongs in a book. Despite the fact that I was, at the time, not particularly in the mood for a mystery, and certainly not such a long book, I was a total goner once I read the first page.Meanwhile, in the wake of his father's passing, Macaire Ebezner is set to take over as president of the largest private bank in Switzerland. Not a book waiting to be turned into a movie or worse – a ten part miniseries – under the thinly veiled pretence that it’s an ode to his mentor. Let’s chuck in on/off love affairs which go on so long it begins to feel like a worn out record, some stereotypical bankers who definitely act like a word that rhymes with banker, some incredibly cheesy dialogue and much repetition of said dialogue that I nearly pass out from boredom.

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Maybe not literally, but if you’ve read any Dicker since ‘Harry Quebert’ before and saw a couple of tired Hollywood blockbuster sequels with disappointing endings, then yes, you’ve read this before. I think one can read between the lines, and get a chuckle where it becomes obvious he exaggerates his own prowess. Aside from the affair, espionage and corporate politics, embezzlement has been going on at the bank. Scarletta Leonas, another guest at the hotel, discovers that the reason there’s no Room 622 is that an unsolved murder has occurred.Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. I felt uncomfortable with the way he describes and makes the character of Arma act (hello racial overtones). But this book made me really imagine walking the streets of Geneva and wondering about all those secret international banking laws – something I’ve always been fascinated by.