bMan Booker Prize Finalist. iLA Timesi Book Prize Finalist. iNew York Timesi Editor's Choice. American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller Named on Best Book lists by iNewsweeki, iNPRi, iThe Guardiani, iThe Telegraphi, and iThe Sunday Timesi b pIn the smash hit historical thriller that the iNew York Times Book Reviewi calls thought provoking fiction, a brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. pThere is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path And will he hang for his crime pPresented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, iHis Bloody Projecti opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief am