This novel is stated on the title page as being written by Raymond Brunet and translated and introduced by Graeme Macrae Burnet. However, Graeme Macrae Burnet is the real author and there is no translation involved. 'Raymond Brunet' is a stylistic artifice employed to enhance the work's authenticity.

"First published in the UK in 2017 by Contraband, an imprint of Saraband, Glasgow."--Colophon.

From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted His Bloody Project. The methodical but troubled Chief Inspector Georges Gorski visits the wife of a lawyer killed in a road accident, the accident on the A35. The case is unremarkable, the visit routine. Mme Barthelme, alluring and apparently unmoved by the news, has a single question: where was her husband on the night of the accident? The answer might change nothing, but it could change everything. And Gorski sets a course for what can only be a painful truth. But the dead man's reticent son is also looking for answers. And his search will have far more devastating consequences. The Accident on the A35 is the spellbinding follow-up to Graeme Macrae Burnet's debut noir novel The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau.