About the book: 2017 / After “The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair,” which had a circulation of several million and brought the author the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Goncourt Lyceum Prize, a new The novel by thirty-year-old Swiss Joel Dicker immediately took the top spot in the sales rankings. In “The Book of Baltimores,” Dicker again brings to the stage the hero of his sensational bestseller, the young writer Marcus Goldman. In this family saga with an almost detective plot, Marcus investigates the secrets of those close to him. Since childhood, he had been fascinated by the wealthy and successful branch of the Goldman family from Baltimore. He himself was one of the more modest Goldmans of Montclair, but as a teenager he spent every year's holidays at the house of his uncle, a famous Baltimore lawyer, with two cousins ​​and a girl with whom all three boys were madly in love. They saw the future in a rosy light, but the plot of the terrible drama was embedded in their story from the very beginning.