![]() ![]() But that worthy heart is smothered in layers of adipose backstory, and the tortuous plot proves nearly impossible to follow given the constant shifts among, and fuzziness of, the three main time frames. ![]() The heart of the story concerns a love triangle as well as the love/hate between fathers, or father surrogates, and sons. The likeliest candidate, the former bank chief’s son, may be sidelined because 15 years earlier he traded his shares to a shady financier in exchange for something outside the banking world (the potential for spoilers makes it hard to be more precise). As for the corpse, the crime occurred when a new bank president was about to be named. In the framing story, the writer stumbles on an unsolved murder and investigates while using the material to write his latest thriller, which is-you guessed it. Whatever tribute was intended, though, it seems a dubious one given the novel’s problems. ![]() ![]() Only this one is named Joël, and he refers frequently to his beloved publisher, Bernard de Fallois, the name of the real author’s publisher, who shepherded Quebert and died in 2018. Swiss writer Dicker's latest thriller concerns a corpse in a hotel room and a fight for the top job at a private Geneva bank.Īs in his breakout novel, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2014), Dicker has a framing story here about a writer. ![]()
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