Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva where he still lives. He is the author of five novels translated into 40 languages which have sold more than 10 million copies. and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, the best-selling French-language novel in the French edition and adapted into a series by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Joël Dicker publishes the sequel in the publishing house he created Rosie & Wolfe.
“The body of Alaska Sanders, who arrived recently in the city, is found on the edge of a lake. The investigation is quickly closed, the police obtaining the confessions of the culprit and his accomplice.
But eleven years later, the case bounces back. At the beginning of 2010, Sergeant Perry Gahalowood, of the New Hampshire State Police, persuaded to have elucidated the crime at the time, receives an anonymous letter which troubles him. What if he had followed a false lead?
The help of his friend the writer Marcus Goldman, who had just won a huge success with “The Truth About the Harry Québert Affair»inspired by their common experience, will not be too much to discover the truth.” (Presentation of Rosie & Wolfe editions)