'A real box of tricks... a truly ingenious thriller.' - Jake Kerridge. 'Macrae Burnet takes great delight in wrong-footing the reader at every turn.' -Alistair Braidwood. A brutal triple murder in a remote northern crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of Roderick Macrae, a seventeen-year-old from the village. There s no question that he is guilty, but why did he commit the crime? Was he insane? Whose account should we believe? And will he hang? A riveting drama. Citește tot Restrânge...
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Burnet returns after the success of }His Bloody Project{ and }The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau{ for a new psychological thriller. Nothing seems unusual about a fatal car crash on the A35, but for Inspector Georges Gorski one question keeps playing on his mind: where had the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death?...
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LONGLISTED for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 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...
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Description "A stylish, atmospheric mystery with a startling twist . . . satisfies like Simenon and surprises like Ruth Rendell. I can't give it any higher praise."--NPR Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Ad le Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she simply vanishes ...
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A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2018 A GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK FOR 2017 Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for 2018 The Accident on the A35 returns to the scene of Burnet's accomplished first novel, The Disappearance of Ad le Bedeau --the small French town of Saint-Louis. Detective Gorski is called away from his night of solitary drinking to the site of a car accident that left...
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Manfred Baumann is a loner who spends his evenings surreptitiously observing Adele Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at his local bistro. But one day, she simply vanishes. When Detective Georges Gorski begins investigating the case, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core and he is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past....
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A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery A GUARDIAN BEST CRIME BOOK AND THRILLER Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award The Accident on the A35 returns to the scene of Burnet's accomplished first novel, The Disappearance of Ad le Bedeau: the small French town of Saint-Louis. Detective Gorski is called away from his night of solitary drinking to the site of a car accident that left Bertrand Barthelme, a respect...
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recenzie scrisă de Angela
Recenzie "His Bloody Project" de Graeme Macrae Burnet
publicată la 2020-03-23 21:52:26
recenzie scrisă de Oana Maria Stefan