Case of Matricide

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime FictionFrom the Booker-nominated author ofCase StudyandHis Bloody Projectcomes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski.In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to kill her; a prominent businessman drops dead. Between visits to the towns drinking establishments, Chief Inspector Georges Gorski ponders what connections, if any, exist between these events, all while grappling with his own domestic and existential demons.With his signature virtuosity, in which literary sleight-of-hand meets piercing insight into human nature, Graeme Macrae Burnet punctures the respectable bourgeois faade of small-town life and unspools a spellbinding riddle that blurs the boundaries between suspect, investigator, writer, and reader.