Book bloggers and book critics' reference to Joël Dicker's famous book (video)

“The main character of the novel "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" is Marcus Goldman. After the success of his book, the writer experiences a crisis, he cannot write. And one day his friend Harry Quebert is accused of killing a 15-year-old girl. The murder took place 30 years ago and the writer decides to investigate and write a book about it. 600 pages, where a non-professional investigator tries to find the real killer. Joël Dicker is really talented. But a novel is too big for a detective story and too shallow for a great novel."

"He built a real matryoshka, I didn't understand how to destroy it. The novel is extremely multi-layered. Layer after layer, labyrinth after labyrinth. There is no way to find the right one. There is also a love line in the book, it is complicated and incomprehensible, but that's not how love really is. I will rate the book either 9 or 10."

"When I saw that the book has about 700 pages, I put it aside. Then I saw discussions about the novel on various social networks. I'm not a detective fan, but the disappearance of people, the murder that happened years ago is very interesting and you will not regret spending so much time. Until the last page, the reader does not understand who the killer is. It excites and arouses interest. The themes of friendship, unrequited love, and self-sacrifice develop very well in the book. The secrets of the small, inconspicuous city are very interesting, and there are many terrible ones”.

"Marcus, the hero of the book, is experiencing a white paper crisis, he has no inspiration. It's a fantastic detective story. All chapters end surprisingly. Even at the end, I said, are you serious? Usually, the killer always appears in a book or movie, you predict, and you feel that it is him or her. But that's not the case with this book. The book is about real people, it seems to me that the author has worked with psychologists, he describes human beings, their actions, and characters."

"This is a book about the disappearance of a young girl. She was 15 years old, and her name was Nola. She is found dead 30 years after the disappearance. A body was found in Harry Quebert's backyard, and he became the prime suspect." "This book is phenomenal, I read 643 pages in three days. My sleep regime is very strict, but after taking this book I just couldn't sleep, it's so intriguing. I stayed up to read."

The New York Times Book Review

Unimpeachably terrific

France Culture

The novel is a cunning mechanism of deceptions and traps created by the devil. Satan is 27 years old. His name is Joël Dicker. A genius of false endings, a master of mythologizing, sharp turns, weaving a novel within a novel.

Le Figaro littéraire

The reader will be able to take a breath only after finishing the book, excited and grateful for the crazy rush of literary adrenaline.

Télérama

Dicker brilliantly answered the question in his novel: What does it take to write a real novel? He just wrote it.

The Village

Literary sensation, and intellectual detective story, which became a global megahit.