This month's book is 'His Bloody Project' by Graeme Macrae Burnet. 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 and 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 and the gallows.

Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and 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.

If you want to support your local bookshop to purchase your copy, we can recommend Dulwich Books, Clapham Books and Forest Hill Books to name a few. For online sales why not try uk.bookshop.org where you get to allocate the sale to a bookshop of your choice.

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