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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Start date: June 1, 2017

Finish date: June 30, 2017

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Oct 12, 2017 Dem rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 5-star, favorites, historical-fiction, top-30

Lost my Original review on Goodreads ( 2015) and as this was one of my favourite books just had to rewrite it.
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet So gripping and atmospheric, a clever psychological thriller

I would never have picked up this book had it not been chosen for this month's book club read as neighter the cover or the blurb appealed to me and while I rarely enjoy Man booker prize winners, I loved this one for its cleverness, athmosphere, and writing style.

The year is 1869. A ...more

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Jun 05, 2017 ☮Karen rated it liked it

Shelves: hoopla, audio, read-in-2017

I don't enjoy memoirs as a whole, and I find true crime books a bit too dry and repetitive for my tastes. Even though this book is 100% fiction, it reads like non-fiction and is laid out like a true crime story, with a detailed written confession to three murders, the reveal of some documents about the murders, and a transcript of the trial. Fortunately, the story is an interesting one with enough open ends to keep me reading. The ending leaves much up to the reader to decide, using the informat ...more

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May 09, 2017 Irene rated it really liked it

In the mid-19th century, in a Scottish community of tenant farmers, a quiet 17 year old boy hacks his 3 neighbors to death. This is the account as told by the young man who writes his story while awaiting trial, the doctor called in to determine his sanity, the lawyers who conduct the trial. Guilt is never in question, only culpability. This is a very well written novel that explores the forces that might motivate a person to act in violence and the perceptions of the larger society.

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Apr 03, 2017 Anna rated it it was amazing

I thoroughly enjoyed this unusual thriller and am excited by this author. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and won the Saltaire Fiction Book of the year for 2016 and deservedly so.

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