Graeme Macrae Burnet
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English
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The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae is arrested for the crime. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. And why did he kill his other two victims? Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the...
2) Case study
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English
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"The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. 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....
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English
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Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she simply vanishes into thin air and Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance....
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Español
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Vuelve el lacónico y «simenoniano» inspector Georges Gorski de «La desaparición de Adèle Bedeau» en una novela dotada de un humor negro sutil y sofisticado.
Un suceso inesperado empaña la rutina de Saint-Louis: un influyente abogado de la ciudad ha muerto en un accidente en la A-35. El inspector Gorski, encargado de la investigación, habrá de vérselas no solo con su homónimo estrasburgués, sino también con un joven aficionado dispuesto...
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Inspector Gorski novels volume 2
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Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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In the small French town of Saint-Louis, Inspector Gorski investigates a suspicious car crash that left a respected solicitor dead.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, Manfred Baumann spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day she vanishes into thin air. Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance. He sets his sights on...