A Case of Matricide; SIGNED 1st/1st

Burnet, Graeme Macrae

ISBN 10: 1916812171 / ISBN 13: 9781916812178

Published by Saraband / Contraband, 2024

About this Item

Signed by Graeme Macrae Burnet to the title page. A fine copy of a first edition, first impression hardback. All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery.

Seller Inventory # 014760

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Case of Matricide; SIGNED 1st/1st
• Publisher: Saraband / Contraband
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916812171
• ISBN 13: 9781916812178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • ABE

About this title

Synopsis

From the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski.

In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, the troubled Inspector Georges Gorski takes the case of a local woman who has called the to report that she suspects her son, a novelist named Robert, of plotting her death. Between the suspicious death of their dog, Robert’s callous disregard for his mother’s accusations, and her unreliable state of mind, Gorski decides to keep a close eye on their house. He visits with increasing frequency, trying to understand why—and how—a man might murder his mother. As Gorski’s closeness to the Duymanns swiftly slips from curious to dangerous, his grip on the case—and reality—irreversibly loosens.

In his unmistakably Nabokovian style, in which the line between fiction and reality blurs and narration and truth are questioned at every turn, Burnet constructs an elegant, bizarre, and destabilizing account of the ways guilt moves between mind and body, suspect and investigator, and writer and reader.