Joel Dicker

A novelist named Joël retreats to the luxury Hotel Verbier in the Swiss Alps to nurse a breakup and grieve his publisher's death, only to notice the hotel has no Room 622. Teaming up with a fellow guest named Scarlett, he begins unraveling a long-cold murder that once took place in the missing room.

In a wealthy Geneva suburb, Sophie Braun lives with her family in an idyllic lakeside villa, while across town two criminals prepare to rob a prestigious jewelry store. The novel weaves between timelines to reveal how these seemingly separate worlds are dangerously connected, unraveling the hidden darkness beneath the neighborhood's polished surface.

On July 2, 2022, two criminals execute a carefully planned robbery of a famed Geneva jewelry boutique-but their "perfect" heist quickly unravels. What begins as a domestic thriller expands into an intricate mystery where nothing and no one is quite what they seem.