His Bloody Project : documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae : a novel / edited and introduced by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- Bib ID:
- 8053285
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Burnet, Graeme Macrae, 1967-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2016
- ©2015
- 1 online resource (288 pages) : map.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 2.6MB
- ISBN:
- 9781925410563
- Technical Details:
- Requires Adobe Digital editions 1.7.2. or higher.
- Summary:
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae is arrested for the crime. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. And why did he kill his other two victims? Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between the killer and the gallows at Inverness. In this compelling and original novel, using the words of the accused, personal testimony, transcripts from the trial and newspaper reports, Graeme Macrae Burnet tells a moving story about the provisional nature of the truth, even when the facts are plain. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the rules can change but justice is absolute. His Bloody Project, which deals with a triple murder in a crofting village in the Scottish Highlands, has been shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. '
- Notes:
- General.
- Subject:
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- Murder -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
- Murderers -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
- Trials (Murder) -- Scotland -- Fiction
- Fiction - Historical
- Fiction / Crime
- Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
- Historical crime & mysteries
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Murder -- Psychological aspects
- Trials (Murder)
- Scotland -- Fiction
- Scotland
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Text Publishing
- Copyright:
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- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2015
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