![]() ![]() And I often had to remind myself that Burnet’s imagination was the source, not true events.Īt one point, a fancy, Edinburgh-based psychologist presents his reasoning as it relates to the case. ![]() ![]() However, the section where the accused sets out his version of events is intriguing. As such, I found whole sections to be quite dull. It’s more of a psychological study and courtroom procedural. The preface states everything I’ve just detailed. The deceased include a man, his teenage daughter, and young son. Young Roderick (Roddy) Macrae, just seventeen, stands accused of brutally murdering three of his neighbors. This is set a hundred years later, and immeasurably poorer and more hardscrabble. But the story here isn’t like that other famous Highlands-based book, Outlander. ![]() They’re in the northwestern Scottish Highlands. The book’s village and its surrounding area are indeed real places. Yes, I indulged my habit of checking Google Maps while reading. It’s a tiny burg between the poetically-named Toscaig and Camusterrach. But the crime was committed in 1869 in Culduie, Scotland. His Bloody Project is historical fiction from author Graham Macrae Burnet that reads like true crime. ![]()
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