His Bloody Project : Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae (Man Booker Prize Finalist 2016) (Hardcover)

from alexrichman

After Serial and Making A Murderer, it's good to get back to some good old fashioned Fake Crime. This has it all - a likeable suspect, unreliable narration, a story that twists and turns and then, finally, horrific violence. My New Year's Resolution is to recommend this book to people so I can di...

from pgchuis

Roderick Macrae, a 17 year-old crofter, murders Lachlan Mackenzie, the community "constable", who has been persecuting his family, together with Lachlan's daughter Flora (for whom Roderick has has romantic feelings) and his infant son. His stated motive is to free his father from further persecut...

from RidgewayGirl

From the opening pages the reader knows that Roderick Macrae has been arrested for the murder of three of his neighbors in the tiny village of Culdie, in Scotland in 1869. Macrae admits his guilt and the witness statements are unequivocal. So while what follows may be considered a crime novel, it...

from DeltaQueen50

His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet tells the fictional story of a 17 year old boy name Roddy Macrae who murders three members of a neighbouring family in a small, remote Scottish village in the mid 1800s. There is no question that he comm...

from markm2315

An excellent historical crime novel. A reader told me that he was concerned that this book was told using multiple documents, and hadn't read it for that reason, but the documents read like a novel and are not distracting.