CASE STUDY by Graeme Macrae Burnet has been shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction.
The Ned Kelly Awards were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward excellence in the field of crime writing, making them one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious prizes to honour the genre.
The other titles on this year’s ‘Best International Crime Fiction’ shortlist are: THE HERON’S CRY by Ann Cleeves, THE MAID by Nita Prose and CRY WOLF by Hans Rosenfeldt.
CASE STUDY was published in paperback in the UK by Saraband Books on 14 April 2022 and has already been the recipient of numerous accolades, including being chosen as a ‘Book of the year’ in 2021 by The Spectator, The Scotsman and Waterstones. It has also been longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022. It was published by Text in Australia in October 2021 and a deal for North American rights is being concluded, with translation rights sold in nine territories.
The winners of the Ned Kelly Awards will be announced in August.
CASE STUDY by Graeme Macrae Burnet
‘A novel of mind-bending brilliance.’ – Hannah Kent
‘A thrilling investigation into sanity and identity.’ – Alice O’Keeffe, The Bookseller
‘Fun and funny, sly and serious, a beguiling literary game that manages to say more about the nature of the self than any number of more self-consciously solemn works.’ – David Szalay
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I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.
London, 1965. An unworldly young woman suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family. Determined to find out more, she becomes a client of his under a false identity. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything.
In CASE STUDY, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents both sides: the woman’s notes and the life of Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling, page-turning and wickedly humorous meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.
About Graeme Macrae Burnet
Graeme Macrae Burnet was brought up Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and now lives in Glasgow. He has also lived in the Czech Republic, France, Portugal and London. He has appeared at festivals and events in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Russia, Estonia, Macau, Ireland, Germany and France, as well as in the UK.
His first novel, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ADÈLE BEDEAU (Contraband, 2014), received a New Writer’s Award from the Scottish Book Trust and was longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award. A second Inspector Gorski novel, THE ACCIDENT ON THE A35, was published in 2017.
HIS BLOODY PROJECT (Contraband, 2015) won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the LA Times Book Awards. It has been published to great acclaim around the world and film rights have been optioned by Synchronicity.
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