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Book SynopsisSwiss Sensation Joël Dicker's compulsive follow-up to the phenomenally bestselling The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairTrade ReviewSweeping, clever, heartbreaking and memorable. The perfect summer read -- Henrietta Richman * Grazia *
Veers between nostalgia for what could have been and regrets for what can never be.
Captivating and beautifully conceived -- Pascale Frey * Elle *
A striking insight into America's weird class system, and a moving
story of brotherhood and family rivalry
-- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times *
A literary
phenomenon -- Astrid de Larminat * Figaro *
Once again, Dicker
brilliantly combines all the elements that first enticed his legions of readers -- Julie Malaure * Le Point *
Immense and detailed . . . The backstory is
all-consuming and will not let you skip a single paragraph -- Rachael Revesz * Independent *
Joël Dicker really knows how to tell
a great story -- Stéphanie des Horts * Valeurs Actuelles *
The Dicker who wrote
The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair was
a magician, a juggler. The Dicker of
The Baltimore Boys has no need of such tricks. He is not just a good writer,
he is a great writer -- Antonio d’Orrico * Corriere della Serra *
A
titan of a novel. Nabokovian.
Highly recommended -- Laura Fernández * El Cultural de El Mundo *
A
new masterstroke from Joël Dicker. The ace up his sleeve -- Pierre-Yves Grenu * Culturebox *
My goodness, this Joël Dicker can
really spin a yarn -- Marianne Grosjean * Tribune de Genève *
Really
compelling. A multi-layered family saga that behaves like a
thriller * Frankfurter Neue Presse *
A novel with the power to
enthral its readers and whose characters will remain fixed in your memory * ORF *
A
top-class literary thriller that smoothly outclasses its rivals -- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times on The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair *
It's like 'Twin Peaks' meets
Atonement meets
In Cold Blood - the French thriller
everyone is talking about -- Gaby Wood * Daily Telegraph on The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair *
An
expertly realised, addictive Russian doll of a whodunit -- Fanny Blake * Daily Mail on The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair *
The book of the year * Simon Mayo on The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair *
