Bøger af Graeme Macrae Burnet

Chief Inspector Gorski returns ... 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 façade 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.

Introducing Detective Georges Gorski...From twice Booker-listed author of His Bloody Project and Case Study. Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and ill at ease, he spends his evenings surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at his local bistro. But one day, she vanishes into thin air. When Detective Georges Gorski begins investigating her disappearance, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core and he is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past. The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau effortlessly conjures up an otherworldly atmosphere that simultaneously intrigues and unsettles. A compelling psychological portrayal of a peculiar outsiderpushed to the limit by his own feverish imagination, it is byturns haunting, strange and mesmeric - Graeme Macrae Burnet's acclaimed debut, a literary mystery novel that is well on its way to achieving cult status.

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From the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski.In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, the troubled Inspector Georges Gorski takes the case of a local woman who has called the to report that she suspects her son, a novelist named Robert, of plotting her death. Between the suspicious death of their dog, Robert's callous disregard for his mother's accusations, and her unreliable state of mind, Gorski decides to keep a close eye on their house. He visits with increasing frequency, trying to understand why--and how--a man might murder his mother. As Gorski's closeness to the Duymanns swiftly slips from curious to dangerous, his grip on the case--and reality--irreversibly loosens.In his unmistakably Nabokovian style, in which the line between fiction and reality blurs and narration and truth are questioned at every turn, Burnet constructs an elegant, bizarre, and destabilizing account of the ways guilt moves between mind and body, suspect and investigator, and writer and reader.

An unexpected event tarnishes the routine of Saint-Louis: an influential lawyer in the city has died in an accident on the A-35. Inspector Gorski, in charge of the investigation, will have to deal not only with his Strasbourg counterpart, but also with a young amateur willing to compete with him: Raymond Barthelme, teenage son of the deceased. Meanwhile, his private life falters and the inspector searches, despite himself, for answers and refuge in the bars of Saint-Louis, where the entire cast of "The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau" awaits him. But his demons lurk in every corner, and in this case of the A-35, each new clue hides a trap...

London, 1965. En verdensfjern ung kvinde mener, at en karismatisk psykoterapeut, Collins Braithwaite, har drevet hendes søster til selvmord. For at bekræfte sin mistanke antager hun en falsk identitet og præsenterer sig for ham som en klient. Løbende noterer hun sine observationer i notesbøger. Hurtigt bliver hun trukket ind i en verden, hvor hun ikke længere kan være sikker på noget. Selv hendes egen karakter. I Et casestudie præsenterer Graeme Macrae Burnet disse notesbøger blandet med sin egen biografiske forskning i Collins Braithwaite.Resultatet er en blændende – og ofte ondskabsfuld humoristisk – meditation over fornuftens, identitetens og sandhedens natur af en af de mest opfindsomme romanforfattere, der skriver i dag. Longlisted til The Booker Prize 2022

A 2016 Man Booker Prize Finalist that explores the inscrutable depths of a murderous mind.

Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly AwardsLonglisted for the 2022 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown AwardSELECTED BY NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Projectblurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination.London, 1965. 'I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger,' writes an anonymous patient, a young woman investigating her sister's suicide. In the guise of a dynamic and troubled alter-ego named Rebecca Smyth, she makes an appointment with the notorious and roughly charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite, whom she believes is responsible for her sister's death. But in this world of beguilement and bamboozlement, neither she nor we can be certain of anything.Case Study is a novel as slippery as it is riveting, as playful as it is sinister, a meditation on truth, sanity, and the instability of identity by one of the most inventive novelists of our time.

En Mercedes kører af vejen og smadres mod et træ. Føreren dør på stedet. Der ser ikke ud til at være noget bemærkelsesværdigt ved ulykken, men alligevel begynder kommissær Gorski at bore i sagen. Hvor var offeret, en alvorlig advokat, på ulykkesaftenen?Advokatens søn, en sexforskrækket, indelukket teenager, indleder sin egen efterforskning, men føres ad ganske andre og ukendte veje.Fil størrelse: 292317 KBIndlæst af: Jesper Bøllehuus

Af forfatteren til Hans blodige projekt, shortlistet til the Man Booker Prize 2016.Manfred Baumann er en ensom mand. Socialt kejtet og altid utilpas bruger han sine aftner på at drikke og i smug iagttage Adèle Bedeau, den yppige servitrice på den triste Restaurant de la Cloche i den lidet bemærkelsesværdige by Saint-Louis i det sydlige Frankrig.Men en dag forsvinder Adéle Bedeau.Inspektør Gorski, en detektiv der stadig plages af et tyve år gammelt uopklaret mord, efterforsker pigens forsvinden, og Manfreds regelmæssige liv rystes da han tvinges til at konfrontere sin fortids mørke hemmeligheder.

Året er 1869. Efter et brutalt tredobbelt mord i en fjerntliggende landsby i det skotske højland, bliver en ung mand ved navn Roderick Macrae arresteret. Under fængslingen skriver han sin historie og erklærer sig skyldig, men den efterfølgende retssag viser, at han måske ikke har fortalt hele historien. Hans advokat og en fremtrædende psykiater prøver at finde frem til sandheden. Kan de redde ham fra galgen? Graeme Macrae Burnet fortæller en uimodståelig og original beretning om sandhedens flygtige natur, selv når kendsgerningerne synes åbenlyse. Hans blodige projekt er en fortryllende litterær thriller, der foregår i et barskt miljø, hvor den stærkes ret hersker. Shortlistet til The Man Booker Prize. "Spændende hele vejen." – Bo Tao Michaëlis, Politiken "Beundringsværdig gennemført." – Lars Ole Sauerberg, Jyllands-Posten "Gribende, legende og intelligent." – Robbie Millen, Times

"e;I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger."e; London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character. In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents these notebooks interspersed with his own biographical research into Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling - and often wickedly humorous - meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.

There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of a sleepy French backwater.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016.WINNER, Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2016.The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country's finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows.Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.