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One night in December, a murder took place at the Palace in Verbier, in the Swiss Alps.
The police investigation will never succeed.
Here are the first lines of the back cover of
The Enigma of room 622
.
Signed by the Swiss Joël Dicker, it is the best-selling novel of the year 2020 according to the ranking published Thursday by the magazine
Livres Hebdo
.
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, by Joël Dicker: murder and little secrets in Helvetian soil
Half thriller, half melodrama, 100% detective, the enigma novel edited by De Fallois and published in May has sold 493,919 copies in France, according to figures from the GfK cabinet, which compiles the figures of some 5,000 points physical and digital sales in France.
It is ahead
of Guillaume Musso's
Secret Life of Writers
, published in 2019 by Calmann-Lévy and picked up in pocket in 2020, which has sold 483,079 copies.
Hervé Le Tellier, anomaly of the year
The big surprise of the year is undoubtedly
L'Anomalie
by Hervé Le Tellier, published by Gallimard.
Benefiting from a modest circulation when it was released in August, this breathtaking and funny novel, crowned with the Goncourt prize last November, has since climbed to third place in sales with 440,848 copies sold.
With some 800,000 copies printed by Gallimard, its unsuspected success should ultimately make
L'Anomalie
the second best-selling Goncourt prize in history, behind
Marguerite Duras'
L'Amant
(1984) and ahead of
Les Bienveillantes
by Jonathan Littell ( 2006).
Read also: Hervé le Tellier, a top-flight Goncourt prize
Guillaume Musso is very likely to remain the best-selling author of the year.
La Vie est une roman
, published in May, is the fifth best-selling book of 2020, with 396,717 copies.
The fourth is
Fait maison n ° 1
, by Cyril Lignac with 421,448 copies.
Finally, the latest Lucky Luke,
Un cow-boy dans le coton
, is the best-selling comic book, with 271,538 copies.
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Despite a decrease in the cumulative number of copies of the annual Top 50 (10.6 million copies, -10%), the total turnover is up (155 million euros, + 9%)
” thanks to sales of books more expensive than in 2019, such as novelties in novels, added the monthly book.
