'A Case of Matricide' with Graeme Mcrae Burnet

Name: 'A Case of Matricide' with Graeme Mcrae Burnet
Start: 2024-11-22T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-22T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh

Schedule

Fri Nov 22 2024 at 08:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, SC

Chief Inspector Gorski returns... And we're delighted to be joined by Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project, Graeme Mcrae Burnet, to tell us all about it!
A Case of Matricide
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 hostelries, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski ponders the connections, if any, between these events, while all the time grappling with his own domestic and existential demons.
Graeme Macrae Burnet once again pierces the respectable bourgeois facade of small-town life in this, the concluding part of his trilogy of Gorski novels. He injects a wry humour into the tiniest of details and delves into the darkest recesses of his characters' minds, but above all provides an entertaining, profound and moving read.
About Graeme Mcrae Burnet
Graeme Macrae Burnet is one of the UK's brightest literary talents. His second novel, His Bloody Project, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2016, won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2016, and was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Awards 2017. It has been published around the world. His fourth novel, Case Study, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. The two previous novels in Graeme's Gorski trilogy have also received widespread critical praise and have become cult-like classics in several countries for their multilayered references and metafictional elements.