Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae is arrested for the crime. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. And why did he kill his other two victims? Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the...
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Inspector Gorski novels volume 3
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English
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"From the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski. In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, the troubled Inspector Georges Gorski takes the case of a local woman who has called the to report that she suspects her son, a novelist named Robert, of plotting her death. Between the suspicious death of their dog, Robert's callous disregard for his mother's accusations, and her unreliable...
4) Case Study
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Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize • Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards • Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination.
London, 1965. 'I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger,' writes an anonymous patient,...
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Español
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Vuelve el lacónico y «simenoniano» inspector Georges Gorski de «La desaparición de Adèle Bedeau» en una novela dotada de un humor negro sutil y sofisticado.
Un suceso inesperado empaña la rutina de Saint-Louis: un influyente abogado de la ciudad ha muerto en un accidente en la A-35. El inspector Gorski, encargado de la investigación, habrá de vérselas no solo con su homónimo estrasburgués, sino también con un joven aficionado dispuesto...
Author
Series
Inspector Gorski novels volume 1
Publisher
Arcade
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"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
Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she...
Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she...