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Author:

Burnet, Graeme Macrae, 1967-

Title:

His Bloody Project : Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae: a historical thriller / edited and introduced by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

Publisher:

Skyhorse Publishing ,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

290 pages : map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Trials (Murder)--Scotland--Fiction.
Murder--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
Murderers--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.

Notes:

"Finalist The Man Booker Prize 2016." --cover. "Originally published: Contraband Publishing in 2015". --verso page.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1510719210
9781510719217 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)956349350

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)