Graeme Macrae Burnet was born in Kilmarnock in 1967. He studied English Literature at Glasgow University before spending some years teaching in France, the Czech Republic and Portugal. He then took an M.Litt in International Security Studies at St Andrews University and fell into a series of jobs in television. These days he lives in Glasgow.
He has been writing since he was a teenager. His first book, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (2014), is a literary crime novel set in a small town in France. His second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), revolves around the murder of a village birleyman in nineteenth century Wester Ross. He likes Georges Simenon, the films of Michael Haneke and black pudding.
Books in order of publication:
The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (Georges Gorski #1) – 2014
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae – 2015
The Accident on the A35 (Georges Gorski #2) – 2017
These Our Monsters – 2019
Case Study – 2021
Fallstudie – 2022