The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
by Joël Dicker
May 2014 | Macelhose Press | $32.95pb *BiP price $24.95
by Joël Dicker
May 2014 | Macelhose Press | $32.95pb *BiP price $24.95
Marcus Goldman, the toast of the New York literary scene, is at his wit’s end after being struck by writer’s block. Desperate not to lose his new-found fame, and in search of inspiration, he decides to spend a few weeks in New Hampshire at the home of Harry Quebert, world-famous author and his mentor from university. During his stay Marcus discovers that in 1975, aged 34, Harry had an affair with 15-year-old Nola Kellergan. The summer of their affair, Nola disappeared after she was seen running through the woods, covered in blood. No one has seen Nola since and no one knows what happened. Then the unthinkable happens. Thirty-three years after her disappearance, the body of Nola Kellergan is found in Harry’s garden, along with a manuscript copy of Quebert’s career-defining novel . Harry is the only suspect. Determined to prove Harry’s innocence, Marcus gets embroiled in the murder case of the century, while everywhere in America people are asking: Who Killed Nola Kellergan? Not just a book about an unsolved murder case, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair explores the price of fame and the seduction of success, the ferocity of the publishing industry and the power of the media, love in all its forms and what it means to be a truly great writer.
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Like Marcus Goldman in The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, Joël Dicker has also found success and fame as a writer. Unlike Marcus, Joël Dicker had four novels rejected before he was able to find his first publisher. The 28-year-old lawyer from Geneva has spent the last year on a whirlwind world tour of the world as his novel has found global success everywhere from Israel to South Korea. His writing career started aged nine when he founded a nature magazine for which he was named “Switzerland’s youngest editor-in-chief.” At twenty-five he was awarded the Prix des Ecrivains Genevois for his unpublished novel Les Derniers Jours de Nos Pères (The Final Days of our Fathers) and while waiting for this novel to be published he wrote his first American novel, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair. That Dicker chose to set the novel in America is hardly surprising because it is a place he knows well. As a child he spent every summer with cousins in Maine, New England. The idea for the book came on a trip to Aurora, New Hampshire when he saw a solitary house on the ocean front caught his eye. He drew a sketch of the house to remember it. Months later, he found the sketch in a drawer and the idea for the book grew from there.
