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I listened to His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet, narrated by Antony Ferguson. This is a novel masquerading as true crime, presented in a series of documents and statements about a triple murder in Scotland in 1869. The bulk of it purports to be Roderick's personal account of the murders and the events leading up to them, written at the behest of his lawyer as he awaits trial after entering an insanity plea.
It was fascinating, on many levels, with an excellent narrator. I have to keep reminding myself that the story is fiction and I can't Google to find out more about the case!
I don't pay much attention to awards, but His Bloody Project was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
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