Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (Dicker) - Book Reviews

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The cleverest, creepiest book you’ll read this year.... The most talked-about French novel of the decade.... Breathtakingly plotted.... Addictively fast.... It’s like Twin Peaks meets Atonement meets In Cold Blood.... The New England setting [is] immersively convincing..... Very few foreign-language novels make big waves in Anglophone countries, but this one seems genuinely likely to buck the trend.
Telegraph (UK)
 
 
With enough plot twists to fill a truck, it is a racy read.... Part master-and-disciple tale, part whodunnit, Mr. Dicker’s thriller is also a postmodern confabulation of timelines and stories, in the manner of Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life.
Economist (UK)
 

[An] In Cold Blood–style investigation of a Twin Peaks–like town.... A smart, immensely readable, impressively plotted page-turner [that] keeps the surprises coming right up to the closing pages.... An immersive, propulsive, continually wrongfooting twister of a tale, it should delight any reader who has felt bereft since finishing Gone Girl, or Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy.
Metro (UK)


[It] does well....what all good thrillers should: it twists and turns.... [It] has the pleasing spryness of one of Jessica Fletcher’s outings [in Murder, She Wrote].... Just like a [Harlan] Coben novel, it’s very enjoyable.
Guardian (UK)


If you dip your toes into this major novel, you’re finished: you won’t be able to keep from sprinting through to the last page. You will be manipulated, thrown off course, flabbergasted and amazed by the many twists and turns, red herrings and sudden changes of direction in this exuberant story.
Journal du Dimanche (France)
 

A master stroke.... A crime novel with not one plot line but many, full of shifting rhythms, changes of course and multiple layers that, like a Russian doll, slot together beautifully.... In maestro form, Dicker alternates periods and genres (police reports, interviews, excerpts from novels) and explores America in all its excesses—media, literary, religious—all the while questioning the role of the literary writer.
L’Express (France)
 

Dizzying, like the best American thrillers.... Rich in subplots and twists, moving backwards and forwards in time, containing books within books.
Le Figaro (France)


[A]n ambitious, multilayered novel of suspense that’s already an international bestseller.... Marcus sets out to clear Harry’s name—and promises his publisher to write a book about the experience. While at times unwieldy and repetitive, this tale of fame, friendship, loyalty, and fiction versus reality moves at warp speed.
Publishers Weekly


A missing girl, small-town secrets and literary ambition drive this busy, entertaining debut thriller.... Dicker keeps the prose simple and the pace snappy in a plot that winds up with more twists than a Twizzler....Nola's precociousness strains plausibility, and a demon ex machina out of Alabama is one twist too many—or maybe it's Dicker enjoying himself too much.
Kirkus Reviews