The Enigma of Room 622 - Joël Dicker

 The Enigma of Room 622-  Joël Dicker

Release Date:  Sept. 13, 2023

Someone was murdered in Room 622 at the Hotel  Verbier; initially we don’t know who.  The crime occurred during a gala weekend sponsored by a bank in Geneva.  The murder remains unsolved. A few years later, a well known author visiting the hotel and a woman he meets there embark on finding out just what happened and soon the reader is immersed in the worlds of Swiss banking, international intrigue, and entangled romantic and familial relationships.

I selected this book because of the setting; I love Switzerland.  I really liked the first half, but soon I thought the plot was all over the place.  The story devolved almost into a farce.  

Acknowledging that this is a translation, the writing was good. There were many twists, some a bit absurd. The narration skips around in time filling in background on the various story lines. I felt that some of those lines and some of the repetition could have been edited out to make it more tightly plotted and livelier paced.

I did like the reveal at  the ending; not the revelation of the killer, but the final ending. That increased the appreciation of the book for me.  

*** 1/2

Thank you to @netgalley and #harpervia for the ARC