
Joel Dicker
2 SeriesJoel Dicker is a Swiss author from Geneva, where he earned his Master of Law from the University of Geneva in 2010. He spent his summer vacations in New England during his childhood.
In Joel Dicker's "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair," Harry Quebert's 1975 love affair with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan resurfaces when her body is found buried in his yard alongside his manuscript. Thirty years later, Quebert is the prime suspect in her murder. His protégé, Marcus Goldman, abandons his writer's block to investigate and exonerate his mentor. As Marcus delves deeper, the lines between solving the mystery and writing his next bestseller blur, captivating the nation with the story of "The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America." However, with Nola, nothing is as it seems, even in death.