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 ) |
