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His Bloody Project

General Fiction

His Bloody Project

Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae (Man Booker Prize Finalist 2016)Burnet, Graeme M

His Bloody Project

Length10h 17m

About this audiobook

Man Booker Prize Finalist. LA Times Book Prize Finalist. New York Times Editor’s Choice. American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller! Named on “Best Book” lists 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?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 Macrae’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 Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question.Graeme Macrae Burnet’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.

Crime

Psychological

Revenge

Family

Betrayal

Political Intrigue

Thriller

Mystery

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction

Length10 hrs 17 mins

Publish dateSep 12, 2017

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Preface

7Extract from Travels in the Border-Lands of Lunacy by J. Bruce Thomson

2Statements by Residents of Culduie

8The Trial

3Map of Culduie and the Surrounding Area

9Epilogue

4The Account of Roderick Macrae

10Acknowledgements

5Glossary

11Preview of Graeme Burnet's next book: The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau

6Medical Reports

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Burnet, Graeme M

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