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.
‘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 *