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A crime story. A love story. More than 2 million copies sold worldwide.

And now a major 10-part MGM TV series starring Patrick Dempsey and Ben Schnetzer.

August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.

That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with 15-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect.

Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protégé - throws off his writer's block to clear his mentor's name. Solving the case and penning a new best seller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'.

But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.

©2012 Editions de Fallois / L’Âge d’Homme (P)2014 WF Howes Ltd Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Mystery Fiction

Critic reviews

"A spellbinding literary thriller… It is maddeningly, deliciously impossible to guess the truth" ( The Time)
"The cleverest, creepiest book you’ll read this year ... Twin Peaks meets Atonement meets In Cold Blood" ( Daily Telegraph)
"A tour de force, this seems set to be a huge success" ( Metro)
"Quietly compulsive…with a deliciously shocking twist" ( Daily Express)
"Big, assertive and clever… hard to resist" ( Independent on Sunday)
"Like Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy [it] combines literariness with compulsive readability" ( GQ)
"Enough plot twists to fill a truck" ( The Economist)
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Joel Dicker's novel may be lengthy but it keeps you captivated all the way through. And although the premise is centred around the unsolved murder of a young girl, it quickly becomes clear that the book is so much more than that. It's about a young writer discovering the secrets of the past of his beloved teacher and having to reconcile the two. But what I loved most about the entire story is its setting: a seemingly innocent town that has been hiding some horrible truths for a very long time. I have been recommending this book to anyone that will listen ever since I finished it. I was completely gripped by the whole thing and so I am yet to be convinced that anything is as compelling as this.

Only the best work of fiction ever

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I have never been a fan of American narrators but Robert Slade did an amazing job on this. I could have listened to it forever!

Deliciously twisty. Loved it

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One of the best book I've read or listened to in a long time. Need 1 more word which was need.

Great book

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Enjoyed this book lots of twists and turns. Although it's two authors one writing about the others past mixed in with their today's friendship it was well put together enabling reader/listener to keep up. Good narration

Good listen

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Ok not as hardcore but at least you can recommend it to your mum. A book that balanced perfectly between The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Garrison Keller's "lake woebegone days" one dark, one americana humour. All side stories were integral, woven to the main story with no deviation, unravelling bit by bit. If you liked the aforementioned books or "The Killing" or "Spiral" you'll like this. There is a distasteful attribute but worth working through.

Best book since "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

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