April 1999, Mount Pleasant, New Hampshire. The body of a young woman, Alaska Sanders, is found on the shore of a lake. The investigation is quickly closed, the police obtain the confessions of the culprit, who kills himself soon after, and of his accomplice.
Eleven years later, however, we discover the case is not really solved. Sergeant Perry Gahalowood, who was conducting the investigation at the time, receives a disturbing anonymous letter. What if he followed a red herring? The help of his writer friend Marcus Goldman, who just had huge success with The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, inspired by their common experience, will once again be crucial to uncovering the truth.
But there is a mystery in the mystery: the disappearance of Harry Quebert. Ghosts of the past return and, among them, the one of Harry Quebert.
Joël Dicker is a francophone Swiss writer who was born in Geneva on the 16th of June 1985. He then took his first steps as a writer. His first short story, "Le Tigre", was awarded a Young Auhor International Prize in 2005 and was published by the "Editions de l’Hèbe" (Switzerland). The manuscript of his first novel, "Les derniers jours de nos père", was completed in 2009 but could not find a publisher until 2012 when he was co-published by "Fallois and L’âge d’homme Editions". His second novel, "La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert" was published in 2012 by "Fallois" and was laureate of the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (younger sibling of the Prix Goncourt).
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