Graeme Macrae Burnet

Graeme Macrae Burnet (born October 1967) is a Scottish writer. His first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, earned him the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013, and his second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. In 2017, he won the Author of the Year category in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards. One review in The Guardian described Burnet's novels as an experiment with a genre that might be called "false true crime". In July 2022, Burnet's novel Case Study (2021) was named on the longlist of the Booker Prize.

Personal life
Burnet was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1967. On his mother’s side, he has family ties to the northwest Highlands.

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (2014)
The Herald described the Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau as "a captivating psychological thriller ... very accessible and thoroughly satisfying."

His Bloody Project (2015)
Burnet’s second novel tells the story of a triple murder in a remote Scottish Highland community during the 1860s. His Bloody Project won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Vrij Nederland Thriller of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, and the 2017 European Crime Fiction Prize.His Bloody Project has been published in more than 20 languages, including German, Russian, Chinese, French, Spanish, Persian, and Estonian. The Telegraph's Jake Kerridge described it as "an astonishing piece of writing" and one review in The Guardian stated that the novel "richly deserves the wider attention the Booker has brought it".

The Accident on the A35 (2017)
The Accident on the A35 is the follow-up to The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau and the second part of a projected Saint-Louis trilogy. This novel was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2018 and the Hearst Big Book Awards – Harpers Bazaar Modern Classics 2018.

Case Study (2021)
Published by Saraband, Case Study is longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.

Awards and selected recognition

 * New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust for The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
 * Longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award for The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau


 * Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award for His Bloody Project
 * Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for His Bloody Project
 * Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards for His Bloody Project


 * Shortlisted for the 2017 European Crime Fiction Prize for His Bloody Project


 * Vrij Nederland Thriller of the Year Award for His Bloody Project
 * Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2018 for The Accident on the A35
 * Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize for Case Study