Reading The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau convinced me that Burnet was channeling Simenon; while carrying on in that vein in The Accident on the A35, he now brings in some of the existentialist flavor of Sartre with a side of Camus. However, both cars are badly damaged, the road is blocked and substantial traffic queues are being reported. There are however a few aspects of the writing that served to make things a little less clear, which could have been very easily fixed, but they are minor. Macrae Burnet gives the reader a crime novel that is much more about the characters than about the crime being solved.

Gorski makes the trip north, to find that ambitious Strasbourg detective, Lambert, is only too happy to make circumstantial evidence fit. Short sketches of people who appear only for moments in a café or on the street all add to the understanding of the culture, which in turn adds to our understanding of how it has formed and shaped our main characters, Raymond and Gorski. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. Mme Barthelme—alluring and apparently unmoved by the news—has a single question: where was her husband on the night of the accident? All the other characters we meet along the way are just as well-drawn, building up a complete picture of the two neighbouring societies at the heart of the story.This is a slow building character driven story, not a plot driven crime story with tension and suspense. Ongoing marital problems between Gorski and his wife, as well as unanswered questions regarding his own childhood, add a layer of motif in the vessels of the main story.

Traffic monitoring service Inrix first reported the crash on the A35, near the The Grazing Cow Cafe, between Honiton and Axminster, at 11. It wasn't a bad story, but there was too much lingering on the cop's marriage to hold my interest, and the characters were just not as intriguing as those in the first book. Set in Saint-Louis, France, very close to the Tripoint, where France, Germany and Switzerland meet, the main characters are the Chief of Police Georges Gorski, and the Barthelme family – husband and wife Bertrand and Lucette and their 17yo son Raymond. While any follow up is unnecessary, as Chief Inspector, Gorski decides he will make some enquiries for the attractive young widow. The plodding Chief of Police, Inspector Georges Gorski, looks into the fatal car accident of solicitor Bertrand Barthelme only at the behest of his pretty widow.Not that they are bad or anything, but as the first point of contact with the reader they are unlikely to turn any heads. The formulations “greatly concern” and “greatly concerned” turn up in adjoining sentences, the adjective “little” is employed twice within three lines, and “resulting” and “result” inside 10 words. The first protagonist is Georges Gorski, a senior officer in the St Louis police force who is investigating the crash. Chief Inspector Georges Gorski contacted the wife of the lawyer killed in the accident, to give her the awful news.

Road users travelling westbound are also advised to use the B3162 through Bridport (diversion route not signed).Sometimes in the evening when he visited her room, she would have him sit on the edge of the bed and brush his hair. There is much reference to the relationships between those inhabitants, the cynicism and manipulation that takes place, the emptiness and blankness of humanity. Their independent, dual inquiries lead the reader down a twisted road marked by seedy back rooms, bar brawls, and--as we have come to expect from Burnet--copious amounts of wine. The alienation, the desire for freedom, the internal darkness is all there, running throughout the entire novel.

I can't envision another Gorski as he will likely be found dead of alcoholism with only his mother to care since he is minus his wife and home. The book switches between the methodical Chief Inspector, with his stale marriage on the rocks, and the adolescent son with his clumsy sexual encounters.At one point I was unsure as to whether two different apartment blocks could be the same place or not.