Graeme Macrae Burnet has established a reputation for smart and literary mystery writing with his Man Book Award finalist, His Bloody Project. The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau is his first novel Winner the Scottish Book Trust New Writers award in 2013 Featured on The List's Top Scottish Books of 2014 In keeping with Burnet's unique approach to crime fiction, this book set in rural France follows an unreliable narrator who may or may not have committed the crime of which he is accused The first book in a series, Burnet is working on the second installation now featuring the same detective, Georges Gorski Deals with contemporary issues like sexual assault and mental health in a historical setting