Overview
The Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project brings us a clever and intriguing mystery, set in a small French town and featuring the troubled Chief Inspector Georges Gorski. In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to do away with her; a prominent manufacturer drops dead. Between visits to the town's bars, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski mulls over the connections, if any, between these events, while all the time grappling with his own domestic and existential demons. Graeme Macrae Burnet pierces the respectable bourgeois fa ade of small-town life in this deeply human story. He draws a wry humour from the tiniest of details and delves into the darkest recesses of his characters' minds to present a fascinating puzzle that blurs the boundaries between suspect, investigator and reader in an entertaining, profound and moving novel.
Full Product Details
Author: Graeme Macrae Burnet
Publisher: Text Publishing
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.330kg
ISBN: 9781923058194
ISBN 10: 1923058193
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 08 October 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
‘Gripping and intelligent.’ -- Philip Pullman * Guardian on The Accident on the A35 * 'Elegant, craftily written and frequently funny.' * Herald [UK] on The Accident on the A35 * ‘A crime novel with post-modern flourishes... Beautifully observed...with understated humour... Wry, intelligent and a lot of fun.’ * Spectator [UK] on The Accident on the A35 * 'A stylish, atmospheric mystery with a startling twist . . . satisfies like Simenon and surprises like Ruth Rendell. I can't give it any higher praise.' * NPR [US] on The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau * ‘A novel of mind-bending brilliance. Graeme Macrae Burnet is a master of muddying the waters, of troubling ideas of truth and identity, fiction and documentary, and Case Study shows him at the height of his powers.’ * Hannah Kent on Case Study * 'A disorienting, darkly funny novel, constructing a tale about the labyrinth of identity within the game-like frame of metafiction.’ * Age on Case Study * ‘A gripping crime story, a deeply imagined historical novel, and gloriously written all in one tour-de-force of a book.’ * Herald, Book of the Year, on His Bloody Project *
Author Information
Graeme Macrae Burnet is among Scotland's leading contemporary novelists. He lives and works in Glasgow. Best known for his dazzling Booker-shortlisted second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), he is also the author of two novels set in France and written in a style influenced by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon- The Disappearance of Ad le Bedeau (2014) and The Accident on the A35 (2017). His fourth novel, Case Study (2021), was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Graeme Macrae Burnet's novels have been translated into more than 20 languages and achieved bestseller status in several countries.
