The Accident on the A35

Highly accomplished, The Accident on the A35 works on several levels... The narration has the simple momentum of classic crime writing... It has a denouement like something out of Greek tragedy but delivers as a proper police procedural too... Burnet's cleverness doesn't get in the way of your enjoyment but playfully adds levels of meaning. -- Anthony Cummins * Observer *
"[A] truly superlative tale... fascinating... one of the most clever and compelling novels to be published this year." -- Lesley McDowell * Herald *
"Very much a novel of skillfully drawn characters... With its nostalgic echoes of crime fiction of the past and elegant, economical prose, it affords a variety of quiet and satisfying pleasures." -- Barry Forshaw * Financial Times *
"Extravagant talent." -- Mark Lawson * Guardian *
Both a classy detective story and a stylish meditation on agency and existence.If Roland Barthes had written a detective novel, then this would be it." -- Philip Womack * Literary Review *
"Reads like a lavishly detailed, psychologically accurate, intelligent, well-plotted, unsimple Simenon... Burnet has proved himself to be the literary games-master." -- David Robinson * Books from Scotland *
"Intriguing... distinctive... atmospheric, often surprising, with a denouement which is beautifully under-played." -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *