THE PHENOMENAL BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL FROM THE MASTER OF THE PLOT TWIST. MORE THAN 7 MILLION COPIES SOLD
""A top-class literary thriller"" The Times
""The cleverest, creepiest book you'll read this year"" Daily Telegraph
August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.
That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect.
Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protégé - throws off his writer's block to clear his mentor's name. Solving the case and penning a new bestseller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'.
But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.
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Reader Reviews
""Loved it! Recommend 200%""
""For anybody after an engrossing crime thriller to lose themselves in, as much character as plot driven, I can certainly recommend this""
""An engrossing page turner of a novel that had me hooked from start to finish""
""I can't recommend it too highly""
Translated from the French by Sam Taylor
Joël Dicker nació en Suiza en 1985. Su primera novela, Los últimos días de nuestros padres, que Alfaguara publicará en 2014, está basada en la desconocida historia de una unidad de inteligencia británica encargada de entrenar a la resistencia francesa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y resultó ganadora en 2010 del Premio de los Escritores Ginebrinos. Su segunda novela, La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert (2012), descrita como un cruce de Larsson, Nabokov y Philip Roth, ha recibido el favor del público y de la crítica más exigente, ha sido galardonada con el Premio Goncourt des Lycéens, el Gran Premio de Novela de la Academia Francesa y el Premio Lire a la mejor novela en lengua francesa. Su traducción a treinta y tres idiomas la confirma como el próximo fenómeno literario global.www.joeldicker.com
