His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Presented in the fashion of a true crime case, His Bloody Project is in fact a fictional, historical, mystery novel. A brutal triple murder in a small Scottish farming community in 1869, leads to the arrest of seventeen year old Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear he is guilty, its up to the country's finest legal minds to figure out what caused him to do such a horrible crime.
The structure of this book gives the illusion of a true story, because the narrative is modeled as a research project. Everything about this book feels like non-fiction, but it is a work of fiction. It is a clever psychological thriller.
The story sounded so interesting, a novel masquerading as "found documents" around a murder trial. Unfortunately, I found the book to be rather boring its entire second half, the part during the trial. We learn through the documents that the murderer denies nothing, and is unreliable as a narrator, making the reader wonder "what is really going on?" If only there was an answer to that question!
Go ahead and read this story to see what you think, it has gotten some excellent reviews. You can find His Bloody Project in the adult fiction section of the library and also in the large print section.
The structure of this book gives the illusion of a true story, because the narrative is modeled as a research project. Everything about this book feels like non-fiction, but it is a work of fiction. It is a clever psychological thriller.
The story sounded so interesting, a novel masquerading as "found documents" around a murder trial. Unfortunately, I found the book to be rather boring its entire second half, the part during the trial. We learn through the documents that the murderer denies nothing, and is unreliable as a narrator, making the reader wonder "what is really going on?" If only there was an answer to that question!
Go ahead and read this story to see what you think, it has gotten some excellent reviews. You can find His Bloody Project in the adult fiction section of the library and also in the large print section.
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