Graeme Macrae Burnet

Graeme Macrae Burnet (born October 1967) is a Scottish writer. His first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, earned him the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013, and his second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.^[1][2][3] In 2017, he won the Author of the Year category in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards. One review in The Guardian described Burnet's novels as an experiment with a genre that might be called "false true crime".^[4] In July 2022, Burnet's novel Case Study (2021) was named on the longlist of the Booker Prize.^[5]

Graeme Macrae Burnet
Burnet at The British Library in 2022
Born	1967 (age 57–58) Kilmarnock, Scotland
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Scottish
Education	Glasgow University; University of St Andrews
Notable works	The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (2014); His Bloody Project (2015) (2015)
Website
graememacraeburnet.wordpress.com

Personal life

Burnet was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1967. On his mother's side, he has family ties to the northwest Highlands.^[6]

Career

He has written at least five novels.

The Herald described the Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, his first, as "a captivating psychological thriller ... very accessible and thoroughly satisfying."^[7]

Burnet's second novel tells the story of a triple murder in a remote Scottish Highland community during the 1860s. His Bloody Project won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Vrij Nederland Thriller of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, and the 2017 European Crime Fiction Prize.^{[citation needed]} His Bloody Project has been published in more than 20 languages, including German, Russian, Chinese, French, Spanish, Persian, and Estonian.^{[citation needed]} The Telegraph's Jake Kerridge described it as "an astonishing piece of writing" and one review in The Guardian stated that the novel "richly deserves the wider attention the Booker has brought it".^[8][9]

The Accident on the A35 is a follow-up to The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau and the second part of the trilogy. It was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2018 and the Hearst Big Book Awards – Harpers Bazaar Modern Classics 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Published by Saraband, Case Study was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.^[10]

Published by Saraband in 2024, A Case of Matricide is the concluding part of his trilogy of Gorski novels.

Awards and selected recognition

• New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust for The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
• Longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award for The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
• Shortlisted for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Awards of Mystery/Thriller for His Bloody Project
• Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for His Bloody Project
• Winner of 2016 Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award for His Bloody Project

• Shortlisted for the 2017 European Crime Fiction Prize for His Bloody Project

• Vrij Nederland Thriller of the Year Award for His Bloody Project
• Longlisted for the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for The Accident on the A35
• Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize for Case Study

Bibliography

Gorski trilogy

• —— (2014). The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (paperback 1st ed.). Saraband. ISBN 9781908643605.
• —— (2017). The Accident on the A35 (paperback 1st ed.). Saraband.
• —— (2024). A Case of Matricide (hardcover 1st ed.). Saraband.

Other

• —— (2015). His Bloody Project (paperback 1st ed.). Contraband.
• —— (2021). Case Study (hardcover 1st ed.). Saraband. ISBN 9781913393199.