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Plus: The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair? It's not a Great American Novel. But it is a decent thriller

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

The publisher has whipped up a tsunami of excitement around The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (translated from the French by Sam Taylor; MacLehose, £20, Spectator Bookshop, £16). More than two million copies have already been sold. Its author, Jöel Dicker, is apparently ‘Switzerland’s coolest export since Roger Federer’.The

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