
SHORTLISTED for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER of the SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK of the YEAR 2016 The year is 1869 A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty but it falls to the country's finest legal & psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae & the gallows Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible & original story about the provisional nature of truth even when the facts seem clear His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary