The Accident on the A35 (The Gorski Novels)

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The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of a sleepy French backwater. The traffic monitoring system states the major road is flooded and 'multiple accidents' have taken place in the area. He is also the author of The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau and The Accident on the A35 both set in the unremarkable town of Saint-Louis in the Alsace and featuring the downtrodden Inspector Georges Gorski. One is reading it as both a detective novel - set in the late 1970's-early 1980's - and as a writing conceit where the author, Graeme Macrae Burnet may - or may not - be a long dead suicide who dabbled in writing but killed himself in 1992 before he became successful.

As Gorski investigates Bathelme’s death, we have to question whether he actually believes there is a connection with the dead woman or just wants there to be. Biography: Graeme Macrae Burnet is among the UK's leading contemporary novelists, having achieved both critical acclaim and best-selling status around the world as a double Booker Prize nominee.

Macrae Burnet has a wonderful writing style particularly around environment and the small details of life which make you feel part of Saint-Louis and the petty slights visited on Inspector Gorski, and at times I. With its nostalgic echoes of crime fiction of the past and elegant, economical prose, it affords a variety of quiet and satisfying pleasures. His latest novel, Case Study has been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Ned Kelly International Crime Prize and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Instead expect a well written, occasionally tongue in cheek, tale of the lives of some rather sad, confused individuals.

But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.His second novel, His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2016, and has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Awards 2016.