The Baltimore Boys, Joël Dicker

Until the day of the Tragedy, there were two Goldman families. The Goldmans of Baltimore and the Goldmans of Montclair. The Goldmans of Montclair, from whom Marcus Goldman, the author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, descends, are a middle-class family, living in a small house in Montclair, New Jersey. The Goldmans of Baltimore are a prosperous family for whom everything is going well, living in a luxurious house in a wealthy suburb of Baltimore, whom Marcus admired boundlessly. Eight years after the Tragedy, it is the story of his family that Marcus Goldman decides to tell this time, when in February 2012, he leaves the New York winter for the tropical warmth of Boca Raton, Florida, where he goes to work on his next novel. Through the memories of his youth, Marcus recounts the life and destiny of the Goldmans of Baltimore and the fascination he once felt for this family from affluent America, between vacations in Miami, a vacation home in the Hamptons, and escapades in private schools. But the years pass and the veneer of the Baltimores crumbles as the Tragedy looms. Until the day everything changes. And this question that has haunted Marcus ever since: what really happened to the Goldmans of Baltimore?