The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist

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Aside from the affair, espionage and corporate politics, embezzlement has been going on at the bank. All the angles are there to set up a murder mystery, but who had the most likely motive? For a large part of the story we are kept in the dark about the murder victim’s identity so we are left wondering not just who the killer was, but who was killed. It’s an interesting device. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by I don’t know if it’s meant to be a take on a French farce but that’s what it feels like with similar (not) humour.

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Over the years, Macaire has also been regularly seeing a psychoanalyst, Dr. Kazan -- though apparently never asking himself whether it's wise to rely on a professional who was recommended to him by Lev ...... Como en la mayoría de thrillers un asesinato sin resolver es la trama, cualquiera de los personajes puede ser el asesino, pero, en este caso, como si estuviéramos jugando a un complicado Cluedo, también cualquiera de ellos puede ser la víctima, ya que hasta bien pasada la mitad del relato no se desvela quién es el asesinado. El enigma de la habitación 622 es un thriller retorcido en el que nada es lo que parece. Encontraremos juegos de poder, envidias, triángulos amorosos, traiciones, celos.. Lev es el hombre al que todo se le da bien y que consigue ganarse rápidamente el aprecio de cualquiera.A pesar de que este es un libro con cerca de una docena de personajes importantes y múltiples saltos en el tiempo, es imposible dejar de leerlo. Desde el momento en el que Joël como personaje llega y empieza a hacer sus pesquisas, pasando por el punto en el que sospechas que tu propia sombra sea la culpable de aquel asesinado, y llegando a la etapa en la que todas las conversaciones, todas las observaciones y todas las pistas encajan y te apuntan al asesino, es un libro espectacular. Son más de 600 páginas que se pasan en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. The board included members from the extended family line -- but also one mysterious outsider, the Mephistophelian Tarnogol who already fifteen years earlier had played a significant role in how things played out, and who continues to steer much of what happens. The first would be the setting. The setting of the book is mostly Geneva and Verbier, Switzerland. I have been to Switzerland more than once, so I’m somewhat familiar with the vibe there already. But this book made me really imagine walking the streets of Geneva and wondering about all those secret international banking laws – something I’ve always been fascinated by. And the Verbier setting made me imagine myself skiing in the Alps and enjoying a wonderful apres-ski. More time is dedicated to the murder in the past, which was a bit of a disappointment since the ‘today’ story is more interesting than the murder in the past. The wealthy private bank family machinations of the earlier murder seem unrealistic, bland and contrived, like having a complex plot explained to you after a movie leaves you totally befuddled.

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He writes that when, after two months, the affair came to an abrupt end he decided he needed a break he headed off to Verbier -- a place Bernard was also fond of. Yes, I know I mentioned this just above, but that “book within a book” thing was a bit confusing for me at first. The author’s name as a character of the book as well? I couldn’t quite wrap my head around that before I started reading the book. Was it fiction or an autobiography of some sort? But, I soon got into the rhythm of the story and this no longer bothered me.Macaire es el tonto útil que es un buenazo y que da la impresión de que sería un fracasado si no hubiera nacido rico. Lo peor con él es que se quiere jugar a dar a entender que tiene un lado oscuro. En serio, es que parece incapaz de matar ni a una mosca. Da alguna sorpresilla, pero cuesta ver maldad en él. However, I think some of the issues are due to a poor translation which you can’t blame the author for. There are some fairly good twists towards the end although you have to wait a long time for them but at least they are unpredictable. Unfortunately they’re not sufficiently dynamic for me to raise the rating . Throughout the book I kept on wondering where was the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, because it cannot be the same person who wrote this book. All characters seem caricatures and stereotypes rather than real people. Not for a minute you believe they could be real people. All these year's Macaire has been dealing with a single person, his handler, Wagner -- and, yes, if: "The whole business had the air of a spy novel", Macaire is fully on board and doesn't question the whole very odd set up.