Graeme Macrae Burnet is the author of the ‘fiendishly readable’ His Bloody Project, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Booker Prize and the LA Times Book Awards. It won the Saltire Prize for Fiction and has been published to great acclaim in twenty languages around the world. His 2021 novel Case Study was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Ned Kelly International Crime Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. Hannah Kent (Burial Rites) called it ‘a novel of mind-bending brilliance.’ He is also the author of a trilogy of novels set in the small French town of Saint-Louis and featuring detective Georges Gorski: The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (2014) and The Accident on the A35 (2017) and A Case of Matricide (October 2024). “If Roland Barthes had written a detective novel, this would be it,” was the Literary Review’s verdict on The Accident on the A35 Born and brought up in Kilmarnock in the west of Scotland, Graeme now lives in Glasgow.
