by Graeme Macrae Burnet · Sonatine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782355846472
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«La Disparition d'Adèle Bedeau» is the crime novel by Graeme Macrae Burnet, published by Sonatine in paperback (280 pages, in French).
In a small Alsatian town, Manfred Baumann, a solitary man, sits every night watching Adèle Bedeau, a waitress at the local bar. When she disappears, Inspector Georges Gorski, marked by an unsolved case, makes him his prime suspect. Between the two, a tense game unfolds that uncovers secrets and obsessions from the past. The novel belongs to the French noir tradition, with echoes of Simenon and Chabrol.
First instalment in the Inspector Georges Gorski series. Originally published in English as The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau; this French edition is a translation by Julie Sibony.
For readers of psychological crime fiction who appreciate slow-paced stories about human fragility and the thin line between truth and appearance.
Graeme Macrae Burnet is a Scottish writer. He writes literary crime novels, often with a metafictional framework. His first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013. His second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. In 2017, he won the Author of the Year category in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards. His novel Case Study (2021) was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2026, his novel Benbecula was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.
