![]() There are witness statements and medical reports, but the centerpiece of these documents is the fictional memoir of 17-year-old Roderick Macrae, written in prison after his arrest for a gory triple murder in his home village of Culduie in 1869. ![]() The book is presented as a true-crime dossier per its subtitle, “Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae” - a group of found documents excavated by a fictional version of Burnet in the course of researching his grandfather (Donald “Tramp” Macrae), coupled with Burnet’s reconstruction of his ancestor’s trial. “His Bloody Project” by second-time novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet is so unabashedly crime-y that its cover boasts bloody fingerprints, on both front and back, with a few rusty smudges on the spine it’s now out in the U.S.īurnet has been quick to point out that it’s not a typical crime novel (“I prefer to call it ‘a novel about a crime’”), and though this is indisputable, it is also true that it’s just not a typical novel. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer” won the best first novel Edgar, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and one of the finalists for the Man Booker (which went to Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout”) was a historical thriller from a small Scottish press. ![]() Crime fiction is always well represented on bestseller lists, but this year it’s also found its way into the most exclusive chambers of literary prestige. ![]()
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