His Bloody Project: Documents Relating To The Case Of Roderick Macrae
by Graeme MaCrae Burnet
Buy on AmazonMan Booker Prize Finalist, LA Times Book Prize Finalist, New York Times Editor’s Choice, and an American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller! Named a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times! In the smash hit historical thriller that the New York Times Book Review calls “thought provoking fiction,” 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?…
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"His Bloody Project is an ingenious, artful tale of a 19th century triple murder in the Scottish Highlands. Though a novel — and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize — it masquerades as the tale of a true crime, made up of a collection of historical documents supposedly unearthed by the writer, each new bit shedding further light on what drove a 17-year-old to kill three people — including an infant — in his small crofting community."
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