A Case of Matricide

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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.

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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.