The ultimate truth of the case is that hooking, this story of Joel dicker hooks up. And that sometimes, while reading such an extensive novel, you wonder if knowing the research on the past case of the murder of Nola Kellergan it can give so much that you can't stop reading it night after night.
A fifteen-year-old died in the summer of 1975, it was a sweet girl in love with a retired writer in search of inspiration with whom she decided to run away from home. Shortly after leaving home with the intention not to return, she was murdered under strange circumstances. That young woman had her little (or not so little) hidden secrets that now seem of capital importance to uncover what happened on August 30, 1975, the afternoon in which Nola left the life that beats in Aurora, the town of La plot.
Years later, with the investigation already closed in false without guilty, incontestable clues point to Harry Quebert, her lover. The romantic forbidden love they shared is made public to each other's outrage, surprise, and disgust.
Harry Quebert is now a famous writer for his great work: "The origins of evil", which he published after that impossible love parenthesis, and is retired in the same Aurora house he occupied during that strange summer of retirement that became an anchor that would hold him to the past forever.
While Harry is imprisoned pending final sentence for murder, his student Marcus goldman, with him shared a peculiar but intense friendship between mutual admiration and the special connection as both writers, he settles in the house to tie up loose ends and get the freedom of an innocent Harry, in whom he trusts with absolute faith. In that cause to free his friend he finds the inspiration to start his new book after a monumental creative jam, he prepares to put the whole truth about the Harry Quebert case black on white.
Meanwhile, you reader, you are already inside, you are Marcus at the helm of that investigation that unites testimonies of the past and the present, and where the lagoons in which they all dived lost in their moment are beginning to be discovered.
The secret for the novel to hook you is that suddenly you see that your heart also beats between the inhabitants of Aurora, with the same anxiety as the rest of the inhabitants puzzled by what is happening. If you add to that the mysterious flashbacks from today to that summer in which everything changed, as well as the multiple twists of the investigation, the fact that the story has you on edge makes perfect sense.
As if that were not enough, under the investigation of the case, after the forced mimicry that you suffer with the environment and the locals of Aurora, they are sprinkling some strange but premonitory chapters, memories shared between Marcus and Harry when they were both student and teacher. Small chapters that link with that juicy particular relationship that sparks ideas about writing, life, success, work ... and they announce the great secret, which transcends murder, Nola's love, life in Aurora and becomes the final stunt that leaves you speechless.
The only "but" in terms of the plot (I always like to put some, damn natural that is one) is that the ending, being powerful sometimes seems to be diluted, the twists are extended and prolonged without that explosion that could make the round work.
Another "but" already more external to the work itself, goes to the layout: It takes a lot of face to use an illustration of someone else's cover and ask for forgiveness in the credits for not having found the author. For a large publisher this sounds ridiculous.
You can now buy The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Jöel Dicker's great bestseller, here:
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