About the Author

Graeme Macrae Burnet is one of Scotland's brightest literary talents. 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. It has been published around the world. Graeme's first novel, The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau (Contraband, 2014), was longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award and was a cult hit.

Reviews

Highly accomplished, The Accident on the A35 works on several levels… The narration has the simple momentum of classic crime writing… It has a denouement like something out of Greek tragedy but delivers as a proper police procedural too… Burnet's cleverness doesn't get in the way of your enjoyment but playfully adds levels of meaning.
*Observer*

"[A] truly superlative tale… fascinating… one of the most clever and compelling novels to be published this year."
*Herald*

“Very much a novel of skillfully drawn characters… With its nostalgic echoes of crime fiction of the past and elegant, economical prose, it affords a variety of quiet and satisfying pleasures.”
*Financial Times*

“Extravagant talent.”
*Guardian*

Both a classy detective story and a stylish meditation on agency and existence.If Roland Barthes had written a detective novel, then this would be it.”
*Literary Review*

“Reads like a lavishly detailed, psychologically accurate, intelligent, well-plotted, unsimple Simenon… Burnet has proved himself to be the literary games-master.”
*Books from Scotland*

“Intriguing… distinctive… atmospheric, often surprising, with a denouement which is beautifully under-played.”
*Scotsman*