Joel Dicker was born in Geneva in 1985, where he studied Law. The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair was nominated for the Prix Goncourt and won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise and the Prix Goncourt des Lyceens. It has sold more than 3.6 million copies in 42 countries. The Baltimore Boys, at once a prequel and a sequel, has sold more than 750,000 in France.
The book of the year An expertly realised, addictive Russian doll of a whodunnit - Daily Mail A top-class literary thriller that smoothly outclasses its rivals - The Times Should delight any reader who has felt bereft since finishing Gone Girl, or Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy - Metro It's like 'Twin Peaks' meets Atonement meets In Cold Blood - the French thriller everyone is talking about - Daily Telegraph Unimpeachably terrific . . . A playful, page-turning whodunit . . . If Norman Mailer had been accused of murder and Truman Capote had collaborated with Dominick Dunne on a tell-all about it, the result might have turned out something like this - New York Times Dicker's bestseller features a labyrinthine murder mystery and a book-within-a-book subplot . . . It's energetically written and cleverly constructed. - Mail on Sunday