La veritat sobre el cas Harry Quebert

Finally, I book that I could really get into.Where to start? This is a book, I'd probably not have picked up myself so I am so glad that I got the opportunity to read it. I found the writing style one that I liked and soon immersed myself deep into the story.Nola Kellergen is a 15 year old girl who disappears in 1975. He body is found 33 years later and opens up a huge case which proves difficult to solve. Initially Harry Quebert is the main suspect as he was in love with Nola in 1975, and her body is found in his garden, however he protests his innocence. The story is told from mostly Marcus Goldman's perspective. He is an author and Harry's friend and sets out to prove his innocence.This book kept me guessing. I never really knew what was gonna happen next and I certainly never predicted the ending in any case. I liked the way it went back from 2008 to 1975 and vise versa. I got a real sense of the people in the book really, even ones who appear briefly. Marcus's mother was one of my favourites even though she wasn't around too much.All in all, a 5 star rating from me. I'm so glad to have finally read a great book this year!

Inhaltsangabe:Marcus Goldman, der neue Star am amerikanischen Literaturhimmel, ist schon seit dem College eng mit Harry Quebert befreundet. Mehr noch: Harry Quebert, selbst ein großer Schriftsteller und gefragter Vortrags-Redner, ist sein Mentor, der in Marcus einen weiteren großen Stern am Literaturhimmel sieht und ihn protegiert und unterrichtet.Doch Marcus ist nach seinem ersten großen Achtungs-Erfolg von der Schriftsteller-Krankheit befallen. Schon knapp zwei Jahre hat er eine Schreibblockade und sein Verleger sitzt ihm mächtig im Nacken.Plötzlich spielen die Medien verrückt: In dem kleinen Ostküsten-Städtchen Aurora wird zufällig eine Leiche entdeckt – in Harry Quebert’s Garten. Als sich herausstellt, dass es die seit 33 Jahren vermisste Nola Kellergan ist, wird Harry verhaftet. Denn zwei Dinge belasten Marcus’ Mentor schwer: Bei der Leiche wird das Original-Manuskript zu Queberts größten Erfolg „Der Ursprung allen Übels“ gefunden. Außerdem gibt Harry zu, dass er mit der damals 15jährigen Nola eine Liebesbeziehung hatte.Marcus Goldman reist nach Aurora, denn trotz aller erdrückenden Indizien glaubt er an Harrys Unschuld und beginnt mit seinen eigenen Recherchen. Schon ziemlich schnell merkt Marcus: Je mehr er fragt und je tiefer er gräbt, desto mehr Verdächtige gibt es. Und es tauchen immer mehr Fragen auf. Bald ist ganz Aurora verdächtigt, das Mädchen ermordet zu haben.Was ist damals von 33 Jahren wirklich passiert?Mein Fazit:Joël Dicker ist ein großartiger Erzähler von komplexen Geschichten. Im Urlaub hatte ich schon den Nachfolge-Band gelesen und war ganz begeistert. Doch dieser Roman setzt neue Maßstäbe!Und wieder fiel der flüssige Erzähl-Stil auf. Der Autor hat mich mit seiner Geschichte sofort in den Bann gezogen, auch wenn er erstmal von seiner Schriftsteller-Krankheit erzählt. Aber er beschreibt es so, als würde er neben mir sitzen. Und nebenbei offenbart er menschliche Schwächen, gesellschaftliche Missstände und eine grandiose Kriminal-Geschichte, die mich als Leserin bis zum Schluss im Atem gehalten hat. Die über 700 eng beschriebenen Seiten störten mich dabei überhaupt nicht. Im Gegenteil, endlich mal eine spannende Geschichte, die nicht gleich wieder zu Ende war!Die Kapitel-Angaben werden rückwärts gezählt, beginnen also mit dem 31. Und was man vorher nicht ahnt: Vor jedem Kapitel erklärt Harry eine Lektion zum Thema schreiben. Mal nur ein paar Worte, mal eine ganze Seite. Sehr geschickt gemacht und irgendwie passen sie auch immer zum jeweiligen Abschnitt. Und natürlich springt der Autor immer wieder zwischen den Zeiten. Aber er notierte die Orts- und Zeitangaben, so dass ich immer wusste, wo wir uns gerade befanden. Manchmal schloss das Kapitel mit einem neuen Hinweis oder einer neuen Vermutung, so dass ich oft in die Irre geleitet wurde. Schließlich dachte ich ebenfalls angestrengt nach, wer Nola Kellergan umgebracht haben könnteDie Lösung ist so genial und doch logisch und konsequent. Keine Frage bleibt offen! Zwischendurch musste ich sogar laut lachen, wenn Marcus wieder mal mit seiner Mutter telefonierte. Auch die Dialoge zu seinem Verleger waren grandios, zeigten sie doch, wie die Welt der Verlage und Literaten wirklich tickt. Und das eine oder andere Körnchen Wahrheit wird da sicherlich zu finden sein.Für mich war es ein absoluter Lesegenuss, der mich noch lange gedanklich begleiten wird. Ich hoffe, ich werde noch viele Bücher von diesem Autor lesen können. Dieser bekommt uneingeschränkte 5 Sterne.Veröffentlicht am 16.08.16!

I had high hopes for this book was really looking forward to reading this.Main character is Marcus Goldman the latest and greatest American writer.His old mentor Harry Quebert has been arrested for murdering a 15 year old girl, she went missing 33 years ago.Marcus decides to write a book to clear Harry's name.Characters aren't believable, Plot is ok but just to silly, Also this book is 200 pages to long.I so wish this book was more enjoyable I couldn't wait to finish it.Easy to read but just silly.

As one reviewer said, this is a Russian doll of a novel. Or perhaps a more accurate metaphor might be a witches' cauldron with every outlandish ingredient you can think of thrown in. To start with, there are the copious borrowings. Throw in big chunks of 'Twin Peaks', add lashings of Agatha Christie, sprinkle in a bit of Hitchcock's 'Psycho', toss in a dash of 'Phantom of the Opera' and infuse with essence of Stephen King's 'Misery'.
There are so many twists and turns that, by the time I got to the end, I felt I had stumbled off of a fairground waltzer feeling giddy and nauseous. It's yet another modern crime novel where murder is carried out by sane, law abiding people as if it was one of a choice of options of how to spend the weekend. This is a pity as there's the makings of a very good novel in the first half that slowly gets buried under a welter of switchback implausibility. It kept me reading to the end to see just how many jaw-dropping twists and turns Joel Dicker could come up with. He takes the prize from 'Gone Girl' with ease.
Layered over the top of all this nonsense is a riff on the nature of writing and creativity, some of which is common sense advice which the author would have done well to follow, although most of it is made up of platitudes. I could also go on about some of the cardboard cutout characters (not another over-the-top jewish mother) and a complete failure, as far as I was concerned, to explain how a boringly typical pretty blond 15 year old, Nola, could so fascinate and enslave so many supposedly intelligent, mature men.

I can tell a difference in the writing style of international writers. The authors use less words, so it seems more stiffer or just the way the story is told is different. Some times I have problems with this. Not in this case. I liked this book. The way that the author drew out the story piece by piece. Marcus was a likable guy. In fact, he seemed to be the only one that even cared about the truth. To be honest, if Marcus had not been investigating Harry's story then he would have been just another guy. Harry's story involving him and Nola was a tragic love story that had gone wrong. I felt for them both. Harry's story did need someone to tell it and Marcus did a good job of doing so. However about half way through, I could tell where this story was heading. It then seemed to move slowly and be drawn out way too long. It could have been shortened about 100 pages and this book still would have been good. The ending was not a surprise. I do think that Mr. Dicker is a good storyteller.

This is a book about a novelist writing a book about a cold case murder. Oh..and at times our dear narrator's version of the truth is not to be trusted. Sound complex...well it is but it's also captivating and exciting and thought provoking. I loved it! I think this will be the book to read this summer.

What a special treat it is to read The Truth About the Harry Querbert Affair in advance of its U.S. publication. Thank you so much @PenguinBooks and the staff at @Bookreporter.I thoroughly enjoyed the read. The narrative is well-written, the translation impeccable. The characters are well-drawn and highly believable. The story has all the elements of a page-turning mystery. You will not come close to guessing the ending (nor multiple steps before). But, it is so much more. For instance, and to my delight, it is meta-meta fiction (I may have missed a meta- in there). It will strike chords with readers who love writers, as well as those who may (still) have aspirations of their own. Most profoundly, Dicker's work is a multi-faceted love story - textured, rich, sad and funny. It never felt contrived nor maudlin.I wish this book much success in its upcoming English language launches.

Well....I wasn't really sure how I wanted to rate this book. I really enjoyed the story and it kept me hooked so that I wanted to read on; to find out what actually happened that day. However, I have to say that the writing style was very off putting. Every single character in this book had no depth, no dimension to them; they were caricatures and stereotypes. It was beyond annoying. Much of the plot line and how the main character gathered his information was so implausible it made me shake my head in wonder; but yet I still found the story entertaining.

Spellbinding, but towards the end too many twists and turns to be credible, gives it an artificial feeling.

Joel Dicker hat ein spannendes Buch geschrieben und das in doppeltem Sinn. Er hat sich eine spannende Geschichte ausgedacht, die immer wieder neue Wendungen nimmt und deren Ende nicht nur plausibel und ernüchternd, sondern für den Leser auch befreiend ist. Diesem Umstand - also der spannenden GEschichte - verdankt das Buch auch den Umstand, dass ich es fertig gelesen habe. Denn auf der anderen, der stilistischen Seite ist Dicker ein miserabler Schriftsteller. Seine Dialoge sind grottenschlecht und auch sein Erzählstil strotzt vor Wiederholungen und unpassenden Adjektiven, sodass nur der Spannungsbogen Grund dafür ist, das Buch zu lesen. Die wirkliche Ironie dabei ist, dass Dicker seine beiden Protagonisten Schriftsteller sein lässt, wobei der ältere dem Jüngeren auch das Schriftstellerhandwerk (allerdings immer nur in Hinblick auf die Gestaltung der Handlung - sic!) beibringt. Der Jüngere wiederum ergeht sich in Selbstgeißelung hinsichtlich seiner Moralvorstellungen und das in Form von Plattitüden, wie sie in ihrer Plattheit eigentlich nur einem minderwertigen aber unglaublich patriotischem US-Amerikaner zuzuschreiben wären. Fazit: Spannende Geschichte, stilistisch von undifferenzierten Charakteren schlecht erzählt.

Spannend bis zu letzten Seite, sehr gelungene Mischung aus Literatur-Roman und Krimi. Leichtfüßig, clever, niemals fad trotz > 700 Seiten. Vorhersehbar, dass sich ständig dauernd alles ändert, man freut sich auf und über jede neue Entwicklung. Vergnüglicher Wälzer.

lots of hype, lots of book, sadly not much of a story ...2 starsI so wanted to be thrilled by this book. With a sinking heart, I knew about 40 pages in I was going to have a tough time finishing. The hype was great, a book within a book, an author writing a book and accused of murder? The clincher was comparing this book to the Steig Larson Trilogy, one of my favorite authors so I thought, sign me up! I am still ticked at the comparison to Larson's work as this book "The Harry Quebert Affair" is the complete opposite in every single way to Larson's work!To me this book read almost cartoon like. I know sometimes translations can make a book sound funny so, maybe part of it was the translation? I could not find one person to like in this book, they were all nasty, greedy, stupid, forgettable, shallow and there were so many of them! It seems everyone and no one was guilty in some way, somehow. A 640 page book of forgettable people... I just could not care about the story or the characters, it was all I could do to slog through to the end. This book is about a 30 year old murder of 15 year old Nola Kellergan whose disappearance has been the talk of the town for years. One day her body is dug up on the property of the famous writer Harry Quebert. Harry is arrested and thrown in jail but, did Harry really kill The girl he once loved so long ago? Harry calls his good friend, protégé and fellow writer Marcus Goldman to come and help him out of this nightmare. Marcus interviews the whole town trying to unlock the secrets of the disappearance and death of young Nola Kellergan. So, who really killed Nola? Was it the older writer who lives alone or perhaps his young friend who has writers block and comes to visit often? Could it be the girls own family? Perhaps a jealous ex-boyfriend? Maybe its the very wealthy reclusive man with the disfigured chauffer? Wait, maybe its one of the town policemen? Possibly a revengeful classmate? Oh my gosh, could she have actually committed suicide? I still don't care "who done it".I don't give just 1 star to any book because somewhere out there someone will love what I have loathed. A wonderful and favorite quote of mine is by S.R. Ranganathan "Every reader her book. Every book its reader." This book came close to me changing my mind.I received this book from Bookreporter

Still early in the year, but I am of the opinion I just finished reading what will be THE best book I read all year.Read innumerable portions out loud to my wife. Mr.Dicker seemed to capture perfectly the differing voices throughout the story.A mystery, a book about books, a book about writers, a book about small town secrets, a love story.From the epilogue..."A good book is judged not by it's last words, but by the cumulative effect of all the words that have preceded them. About half a second after finishing (the) book, the reader should be overwhelmed by a particular feeling. For a moment he should think only of what he has just read; he should look at the jacket and smile a little sadly because he is already missing all the characters. A good book is a book you are sorry has ended." I AM sorry this story ended, and I DO miss the characters already.

I felt disappointed in this like I did about Dragon Tattoo...much too much hype for what it is. It's okay, but not great.

Writer Marcus Goldman has, after a bestselling debut novel, developed writer’s block. Desperate, he visits his former teacher, respected novelist Harry Quebert, in hopes of finding help for the problem. But the discovery of a young girl’s remains puts Harry squarely in the middle of a scandal and Marcus feels compelled to prove that Harry is not the murderer everyone now believes him to be.The story entwines the events of 1975, when young Nola Kellergan disappears, and the present day, creating a sort of a book-within-a-book that allows readers to easily switch between the two stories. Throughout the book, Harry shares his thirty-one writing rules, creating a sort of writers’ reference to help Marcus move past his writer’s block and, eventually, as secrets from thirty-three years ago are revealed, the murder is solved. But will Marcus be on his way to another bestseller?Despite its length [600+ pages], this story of friendship and loyalty is fast-paced; a multi-layered tale with more plot twists and turns than a daytime serial, it will keep you page-turning to the very end.Highly recommended.

I rarely read crime/mystery fiction, and it took me a while to invest time into this 600 page long thriller. The start was sluggish, but the pace picked up after a 100 odd pages, and I was intrigued to find out more.
However, by the end, almost every character in the book turned out be to somehow involved in the murder of Nola Kellergan, creating a mess in my head. If I had to explain the story to someone, I would be lost! All in all, a decent one-time read for me.

Marcus Goldman, successful young novelist receives a phone call from long-time friend and mentor, Harry Quebert. The skeleton of Lola Kellergan, a fifteen year old girl who was reported missing three decades earlier is discovered on Harry's property and he is accused of her murder. During an earlier visit, Marcus discovered that the two of them had a secret love affair and were to elope but she disappeared before their departure. In Nola's possession in the grave was discovered a copy of Harry's manuscript finished during the summer of Nola's disappearance inscribed with an anonymous message to Nola telling her goodbye. Now Marcus finds himself traveling to the New Hampshire seacoast to save Harry, who claims he is innocent of the murder of the young girl he claims he still misses.

I read an advance reading copy of a novel previously released in Europe with accolades but won't be released in the US until the end of May. I found this psychological thriller sustained my interest, page after page, as I accompanied Marcus in investigating the events surrounds Nola's disappearance and attempting to discern the motivations for those who might want to end her life. This is a good mystery with its share of red-herrings and wrong turns. If you are a fan of psychological thrillers penned by Donna Tartt or Gillian Flynn, you won't want to miss this novel when released.

Three stars? Two stars?
I read this because my friend stayed up late into the night to finish -- he couldn't put it down, and that's unlike him. But I don't think the book merits such praise. The biggest thing going for it is the pre-chapter writing tips that are very accurate and should be read by every aspiring author. Okay, the murder mystery itself and how its "solution" slowly unwinds and ultimately resolves is rather interesting. But the writing was not good. I am willing to attribute that to the translation and not the original author, but because I can't read it in the original language I can't be sure. There are times when the writing is fine -- long passages of narration that move the story along fine and with some quirk. It's the female characters and almost all of the dialogue that is caricature of female characters and dialogue -- is it for real? The narrator's mother, for example: caricature mother; waitress caricature love-sick spinster, her mother is a caricature. The dialogue is lame. But the plot is there; I guess that's its appeal. Don't be intimidated by its length, it's a relatively quick read.

As others have said, far too long, but mesmerising at the same time. Glad that I hung in there with it, after getting a bit stuck in the middle with the feeling that it was repetitive.

This book is one that seems to have polarized opinions about it. People either love it and can’t say enough good things or loathe it and are happy to expound at length on the reasons they hate it. I respect both camps but fall into the “loved it” category.I can start by saying I hadn’t read reviews or even knew that the book had won several literary awards in the United States and France. So I went into the book with a blank slate and no expectations. Quite honestly, I don’t even remember where or when I picked up the book and for weeks it has been sitting on a shelf under the coffee table with my thinking that it was a different authors book altogether.It is a long book but for once, the length is justified. The author has written a very complex story with lots of misunderstandings between characters and misinformation presented to the reader that has to be unraveled and would not have done justice to the story if the author had tried to do so in just a few pages.One thing that immediately stands out is that there is a love affair between a 34 year old man and a 15 year old girl. My first thought was “Are we somehow revisiting Humbert Humbert and Lolita by Nabokov here?” The answer is kind of yes and kind of no. But that is a similarity that readers can decide for themselves.The story is complex. One arm is about a writer, trying to meet the high expectations set by his first novel, while he struggles to write his second. Another arm is the writers’ relationship with his mentor who followed a similar path. Another is a love story between a man and a young girl. Another is small town life in New Hampshire in the mid 70’s and the relationships between townspeople and outsiders. Another is a story about a deformed former vet and his mentor, a wealthy magnate.What makes the book so fascinating is that all of these stories are inter-connected. There are tons of themes that run throughout the book and I could write and write and still not cover everything. Nor would I want to do that because there is no way I could do that without exposing the end of the story.It is a book that you have to keep reading because with every page, a new piece of information is exposed that makes the ending difficult to see. In fact, you really have to read to the end to get the entire picture and I loved that. I’m not sure what kind of writing that people who were disappointed in the book were looking for from “a literary masterpiece.” Hemingway wrote in very short, sharp sentences. He used his journalistic background in his literary art. For me, the wording or authorship is not the standout thing about the book. It is the complexity of the story and the author’s ability to successfully link all the threads together. It would have been very easy for the plot to come easily unraveled. To keep this tightly woven was a real accomplishment. This is a long book- over 600 pages. Even so, I was eager every night to get back to the story and 100 pages flew by very quickly so don’t let the size of the book intimidate you. It held my interest and I have been recommending it to others. To me, this is a strong 4 star book but based on the diversity of opinions about it, it is also a love it or hate it book. I hope you love it. I did.

The story follows Marcus Goldman a struggling writer whom mentor and only friend Harry Quebert is accused of murder.Marcus who is suffering from writers block, start his own investigation in the quiet town of Somerset, to clear the name of one of the greatest writers of the 21th century.The book has 640 pages, stars with chapter 31 and ends with chapter 1, each chapter begins with a rule or a lesson from Harry’s 31 rules to become a great writer Well to be honest, the author failed miserably to hook me in the first 200 pages I had considered many times to give up on the book, the beginning is doll, the dialogue is monotonous, and the events were uninteresting, it was 200 pages of pure torture waiting aimlessly for something important to happen or be discovered .Originally written in French, I could say that the problem maybe lays with in the translation but I don’t really have much hope for French books so who knows.The only reason why I continued reading the book, was my friend whom I agreed to have a read along with and I didn’t want to let her down, and who shares the same opinion about the first chapters.However, after passing the poisonous 200 to 300 pages things finally began to move, and eventually you get hooked on the case, although the murderer is easy to deduce, it is the circumstances of the murder and the secrets that the locals keep is what keeps you wanting to read and know more.The book had good ending, a genius one dare I say, and the kind that wipes away the regret of starting the book you had, and makes you close the back cover with a smile of satisfaction.

The journey through this story started rather unconventionally, beginning at chapter 31 and ending at chapter 1. Each chapter began with a life lesson from Harry to Marcus and often the more poignant lessons are repeated. The three main characters, Marcus, Harry, and Nola are the driving characters throughout the novel. As the story progresses and new characters are introduced, the reader begins to develop a back story behind each of the characters. The book reads very much like an investigative dialogue with Marcus as the driving force behind it all. It is a tale of friendship, love, tragedy, and mystery. It is an interesting journey with a twist at the end that caught me by surprise. Highly recommended for those who enjoy a good mystery!

Book: The Truth about The Harry Quebert Affair

Joel Dicker (and translator) has an easy , laid-back style that lulls the reader into thinking this is going to be a book you can consume like a bag of potato chips then feel compelled to go out for a run. You can. But also, this is the sort of whodunnit that can keep the smartest sleuth scratching his hair to the last sentence of the last page. He has complete control over his (many) characters and does not allow the reader to lose sight of them. What's more, this writer has learned a lot about writing from Harry Quebert and the protagonist (both writers in the book). His 'gimmicks' are so clever they seem necessary.
All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this book - a sordid subject made palatable, a Gone Girl with more panache, not written with Hollywood dreams dancing in his eyes but can easily see it as a great movie.

Still can't make my mind up about this book - which is brilliantly translated BTW - one thing for sure, it is far too long.Bit like a maze, dead end after dead end. You think you know what is going on, then there is another twist and then another. It started so well, and for the first couple of chapters I was hooked; I don't intend to give a plot synopsis as many have done, suffice to say the plot was something of a Curate's egg, good in parts. What did seem VERY unlikely to me is that a well read, well educated man like Harry Quebert would have thought that a pretty, vacuous, 15yr old high schoolgirl was his soul mate. I kept thinking of 'Lolita' ...for me that was an essential flaw. For sure it is a very 'clever' book about writing a book, so in a sense it is like a set of those Russian dolls that nest inside each other.I don't regret reading it, it kept me entertained but by the end was beginning to drag somewhat.

Easy read, gripping with a good twist at the end.

When I read this sentence in the Sunday Times Book Review -- “His darkly comic debut thriller (already a blockbuster in Europe!) is unimpeachably terrific.” – I not only finished the review (which glowed so brightly I needed sunglasses), but I immediately added “The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair” by Joel Dicker to my ‘must read’ list. (Did the reviewer actually read the book or simply take the week off and go by the promos?)My first reaction (say, the first 50 pages) was “pretty good.” Half way through my opinion had dropped at least a notch. And by the end of the book I was already composing this critique which I can hardly make scathing enough. Let’s start with the easy stuff. First, the book is too long. I read it on my Kindle and I could never quite believe how little the percent complete increased each time I put it down. (“What! I’ve been reading for an hour and I’ve only gone 3% more!”) Second, it has way too many characters. Dicker could easily have pared down the character list by half and told same story. Finally, the folksy prose is engaging for those first 50 pages. For rest of the book it just sounds childish.The story itself is stupid. The corpse of a teenager missing more than thirty years is unearthed from Harry Quebert’s garden. Harry is an author whose fame emerged from a novel about his love affair with that very teenager. That plotline could easily lure a mystery buff. But Dicker’s own writing is so poor that he fails to convince us Harry Quebert was ever a credible writer; that the love story is believable; that the circumstances of the crime are plausible; or that the characters are authentic. By the end of the book any semblance of plot is completely drowned by ludicrous situations and absurd explanations.Do not read this book! And if you do read this book remember that you are only doing so because you can’t believe it is as bad as all that. It is!

I started to read this mostly to practice my French, so I had few expectations. Even so, I was unprepared for its being quite so ridiculous: middle-aged men lust after a psychologically tormented and vulnerable fifteen year-old girl. She ends up dead and the reader is then meant, over the course of the 600+ pages that it takes for the whodunnit to unfold, to care about the fate of these men. How strange and unreasonable is that? It doesn't help that the author ploddingly trots out one untenable plot twist after another, or that it all plays out in a weirdly cardboard version of New England. While it is understandable that the novel hasn't gained so much traction in the English speaking world, its phenomenal European success is utterly baffling.

Bought this in L.A. airport to read during a flight to the U.K. - it went off to a flying start each chapter beginning with a short hint or tip on how & why to write a novel after that is usually a longer 'real' chapter and these in the beginning are quick fast paced reads but then, the more you get into the book the the longer and more dragged out it becomes - it's still quite a easy fast paced read but then as you near the three quarter stage of the book more stupid twists and turns appear and yes the thing could've been wrapped up an around about 3 or 400 pages but no I think Mr Dicker just couldn't make up his mind on who to blame and who should come out clean - all in all a reasonable read for a long flight but a slog of a read for a normal book

This is a book about a novelist writing a book about a cold case murder. Oh..and at times our dear narrator's version of the truth is not to be trusted. Sound complex...well it is but it's also captivating and exciting and thought provoking. I loved it! I think this will be the book to read this summer.

Internationally renowned writer Harry Quebert is in trouble: the bones of 15-year-old Nola Kellergan have been found in his garden, where they lay for over 30 years. Nola, a preacher’s daughter, is fondly remembered by the small town where Harry lives, and questions are asked. Marcus Goldman, an acclaimed young writer himself and Harry’s protégé, comes to the rescue. He hopes by solving Nola’s murder he will not only remove his writer’s block but help Harry: matters are not helped when Harry confesses he had an affair with Nola, who inspired his most famous work. In typical Twin Peaks fashion, the town is full of secrets and Marcus discovers Nola was not the uncomplicated paragon he initially believed: someone will go to great lengths to prevent his finding the truth. This is a wonderful book, full of twists and red herrings, humour, intrigue and thrills – definitely one of my favourite reads of 2014