An author of the best sellers is "True about the matter of Harry Квеберта and "Book Балтиморов, laureate Grain‐at the French academy and Гонкуровской of bonus of students of lyceum, Жоэль Диккер until now was considered most "American from the European writers. However in "Riddle of number 622 he surprised all, first choosing the mestome of action of book the motherland - Switzerland. Local colour here not simply background - for a plot served a plot "cleanly Swiss murder.A writer leaves to rest in a luxurious mountain hotel, but instead of rest untangles the mysterious crime accomplished there centuries ago. In this reckless history there is all is a dead body on a top page, love triangle, bluff and theatrical effects with participation rich financiers and heiresses of Russian nobiliary family. Who is a killer? Exactly not that (not that, not those), who will be appointed to this role by the most serious reader. Intrigue winds, as a serpentine is in Swiss Alps, 600‐a paginal novel keeps on a tiptoe from the first to the last line. And not surprisingly, that a novel is included in ten of the most successful books written in French language in 2020, and drawing of him approaches million headily.