Overview. His Bloody Project: A Historical Thriller, written by Graeme Macrae Burnet, is a historical crime novel originally published in Presented as a series of fictionalized historical documents compiled by Burnet, the story concerns a gruesome triple homicide perpetrated by Roderick Macrae, a young farmer living in the Scottish Highland in the midth century. Graeme Macrae Burnet makes such masterly use of the narrative form that the horrifying tale he tells in His Bloody Project, a finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, seems plucked straight out of Scotland’s sanguinary historical archives.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review/5(K). · His Bloody Project review by Graeme Macrae Burnet – murder in the Highlands Based on ‘found’ documents, this Man Booker-longlisted historical Author: Justine Jordan.
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. by Graeme MaCrae Burnet. Fiction. One of my favourite reads of was a uniquely Scottish tale from Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project, published by independent Scottish publisher Saraband. Not only is this a dark, riveting novel set in the Scottish Highlands; shortlisted for the Booker Prize in ; and a fascinating story. ― Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae. 3 likes. Like "If asked how one's business is doing, the customary response is: 'Could be worse,' or 'Just about surviving.' Anything more upbeat is reckoned insufferable boasting. Personal achievements should be dismissed as flukery and.
His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae is a novel by Graeme Macrae Burnet. Using fictional historical documents, it tells the story of a year-old boy named Roderick "Roddy" Macrae, who committed a triple homicide in the village of Culduie on the Applecross peninsula, circa Synopsis. His Bloody Project. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER VRIJ NEDERLAND THRILLER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES MYSTERY BOOK OF THE YEAR Edited October 4, His Bloody Project, a Booker Prize nominee, by Graeme Macrae Burnet is a real find. I listened to the audio book and was delighted with the narrator's fine Scottish brogue. Set in the Scottish Highlands in , this is the story of a triple murder by 17 year old Roderick Macrae.
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