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By: Joël Dicker

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  • CategoryMystery & Thriller
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages384
  • Published2024
  • File size1.6 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780063426023

Key ideas from the book

  • A planned Geneva jewelry-store robbery provides the novel’s central mystery.
  • Sophie Braun’s apparently idyllic domestic life is threatened by troubling events around her.
  • A policeman neighbor’s obsession with Sophie adds a source of danger and suspense.
  • Journeys into the past reveal the origins of the plot.
  • The story brings domestic tension together with an ambitious heist mystery.

About Wild Animal by Joël Dicker

Joël Dicker’s Wild Animal begins with a planned robbery at a Geneva jewelry shop in July 2022, then shifts back twenty days to Sophie Braun’s life on an estate beside Lake Geneva. Her apparently perfect home life is unsettled by her husband’s schemes, a policeman neighbor’s fixation on her, and a threatening gift from a prowler.

What begins as a domestic thriller expands into a heist mystery, with journeys into the past tracing the origins of the danger. The novel suits readers looking for suspenseful crime fiction that connects private tensions with an elaborate robbery plot. Translated from the French by Robert Bononno.

About Joël Dicker

Joël Dicker is a Swiss novelist who writes in French. Born in Geneva in 1985, he studied law at the University of Geneva before turning to writing. His international breakthrough, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française in 2012. Dicker’s other novels include The Book of the Baltimore Family, The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer, and The Enigma of Room 622. His fiction often combines suspense with questions…

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