His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The crime is clear: Roderick Macrae, a young crofter in the Scottish Highlands, murdered three people on a summer’s day in 1869. But the story is less straightforward, layered by Burnet with great precision and intrigue as a series of documents, including Macrae’s own articulate and ostensibly candid confession, that give this invented crime the …
