This new novel by young Swiss author Joel Dicker quickly topped the bestseller charts, as his previous book, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, was an unprecedented success, selling millions of copies and earning the author the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Goncourt des Lycées.  In the detective novel The Baltimore Book, Dicker once again brings the hero of his famous bestseller, the young writer Marcus Goldman, to the stage. Marcus investigates the secrets of his friends in this family saga. Marcus had been fascinated by the wealthy and successful branch of the Goldman family in Baltimore since childhood. He was descended from the more modest Goldmans of Montclair, but spent his summers at his uncle’s house as a teenager. Marcus enjoyed his summers with two cousins ​​and a girl with whom all three boys were madly in love. The future was bright for them, but the outcome of the terrible drama was predetermined from the beginning.