Each week, in Le Figaro , Jacques Pessis captures the pulse of Parisian life.
Joël Dicker: mystery and chocolates
If he set in Geneva the setting for his new novel The enigma of room 622 (ed. De Fallois), Joël Dicker took liberties with the reality of the city where he was born and where he lives today . The crime which is at the heart of his story takes place in an imaginary hotel, which he called the Palace Verbier. On the other hand, he describes the park where he played, as a child and the streets where he strolls regularly, while reflecting on the construction of a story the end of which he never knows when he begins to imagine it. The title of his novel is also the name of a box of 36 chocolates presented as a " special edition " by the Chocolaterie du Rhône. It thus gives a spotlight to this mythical address of Geneva, born in 1875 and recently fallen into disuse. A great chocolate lover, he bought it with a few friends, anxious, like him, to save this heritage. The shop and the manufacturing laboratory
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