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His Bloody Project
Graeme MaCrae Burnet
其他書名
Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae (Man Booker Prize Finalist 2016)
出版
Skyhorse
, 2016-10-04
主題
Fiction / Thrillers / Historical
Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
ISBN
1510719229
9781510719224
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=robBzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Man 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?
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.