by Graeme Macrae Burnet · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417553333
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In 1869, in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands, a triple murder shakes the community. Roderick Macrae is arrested, covered in blood and confessing to the crime. His memoirs written in prison confirm his guilt, but the court must discover what led him to commit such acts of violence. Was he insane or conscious? Only his lawyer can stand between Macrae and the gallows, building a solid account to pass sentence. A century and a half later, Graeme Macrae, a descendant of Roderick, seeks the truth in the case's documentation. Can a human being understand the mind of another? A literary thriller set in dark Scotland, questioning the validity of stories and the arbitrary exercise of power.
Graeme Macrae Burnet is a Scottish writer. He writes literary crime novels, often with a metafictional framework. His first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013. His second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. In 2017, he won the Author of the Year category in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards. His novel Case Study (2021) was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2026, his novel Benbecula was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.
