![]() ![]() He chooses the Hotel de Verbier in the Swiss Alps as his sanctuary, a fancy luxury resort where hospitality comes above everything else. Though authors generally retreat from civilization in order to write (and get sucked into some form of horror story), Joel simply needs to rest. ![]() Not only has his longtime publisher recently passed away, but he has also recently suffered a breakup with a woman he loved dearly. This partially metafictional novel begins with Joel, who also happens to be Switzerland’s most prominent novelist, living in a world of trouble. In his latest novel, The Enigma of Room 622, Joel Dicker does his best to find that fabled refuge at a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, but needless to say, nothing goes as planned for him. As much as the majority of us enjoy living in whatever environments we’ve made our existence in, there always comes a point where we yearn to break free and take refuge somewhere far off where nothing and nobody can interrupt our rest. ![]()
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