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Graeme Macrae Burnet

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Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

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https://graememacraeburnet.wordpress.com/

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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.

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The Strange Cases of Maeder and Braithwaite

The crimes of psychiatry are legion, but they can mostly be attributed to a single cause: the idea that the therapist knows more than the patient.

— A. Collins Braithwaite, Untherapy

I have been fascinated by psychiatric case studies since I came across a copy of Robert Lindner’s The Fifty-Minute Hour thirty-odd years ago. ‘I am a psychoanalyst. I meet and work with murderers, sa

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	His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae 3.90 avg rating — 35,945 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Case Study 3.57 avg rating — 11,776 ratings — published 2021 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (Georges Gorski #1) 3.79 avg rating — 5,186 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accident on the A35 (Georges Gorski, #2) 3.54 avg rating — 2,446 ratings — published 2017 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Ferien des Monsieur Mahé by Georges Simenon, Günter Seib (Translator), Graeme Macrae Burnet (Afterword) 3.61 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 1946 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Case of Matricide (Georges Gorski, #3) 3.82 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Benbecula 3.84 avg rating — 222 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Our Monsters by Katherine Davey (Editor), Paul Kingsnorth, Graeme Macrae Burnet 3.46 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man Booker Prize 2016 Shortlist - 6 Books by Ottessa Moshfegh, Deborah Levy, Madeleine Thien 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae: 10th anniversary edition it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“One man can no more see into the mind of another than he can see inside a stone...”
― Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

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“If we measure our society by the compassion we extend to all its members, then it must be admitted that in extending such compassion to the most wretched among us, we demonstrate our fidelity to the most civilised Christian values.”
― Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

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“If one’s cup of water is foul, one must first ascertain if the well is poisoned. If we find that the well is indeed polluted, it may have some bearing on whether or not he is responsible for his deeds.”
― Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

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What will be our July 2024 Wild Card?

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The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet

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The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente

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Ithaca by Claire North

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