His Bloody Project


His Bloody Project
His Bloody Project by Graeme MaCrae Burnet

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2016 BY NEWSWEEK, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE TELEGRAPH, AND THE SUNDAY TIMES

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORSā€™ CHOICE

"THOUGHT PROVOKING FICTION"?THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW


A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? And will he hang for his crime?

Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macraeā€™s own memoirs where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macraeā€™s motive and his sanity into question.

Graeme Macrae Burnetā€™s multilayered narrative?centered around an unreliable narrator?will keep the reader guessing to the very end. His Bloody Project is a deeply imagined crime novel that is both thrilling and luridly entertaining from an exceptional new voice.


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