"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 what drove him to commit much merciless acts of violence? Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate can save Macrae from the gallows at Inverness. Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. Set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrar, His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller." Burnet, Graeme Macrae, 1967-, | Diaries in criminal evidence -- Scotland -- History -- Fiction. | Trials (Murder) -- Scotland -- History -- Fiction. | Murder -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction. | Murderers -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.