Books
by Graeme Macrae Burnet
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His Bloody Project |
Set in the Highlands in 1869, the book opens with a memoir in which the accused admits his guilt as he chronicles everything leading up to a brutal triple murder. Then comes the trial and gradually, as each witness testifies to their own version of events, all the certainties become uncertainties: what is true, what is half-true, what is a lie? Believe everything on the cover:a mesmerising, literary thriller, fiendishly readable, gripping, blackly playful and ingeniously constructed.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 84 Spring 2016) |
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His Bloody Project |
Jenny was quite right (bwl 84) the cover blurb is spot on. A deceptively easy read which takes you back through personal accounts of the bleak events leading to three gruesome murders. It seems each character has in some way been condemned by their poverty- stricken rural existence or is there something more which leads young Roddy to commit such horrible acts? A tragic and captivating story where you keep hoping some good will come to pass.
(Rebecca Howell - bwl 92 Spring 2019) |
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