Frustratingly, sometimes you will finish a book and be left with a myriad of questions to mull over. Even more frustratingly, is His Bloody Project , which has left me with more questions than I dare to count, and a will to read it all over again, doubting my read of the entire novel and searching online for Macrae’s address in order to demand a few answers. The concept is simple yet interesting. In 1869 seventeen year old Roderick ‘Roddy’ Macrae committed a triple homicide in the Highlands where he and has family had worked agriculturally. It is not to ruin the reading of the novel by revealing this, as it is made known from the start. The story is told through several mediums, commencing with testimony of witnesses, the memoirs from Roddy, then through the perspective of a psychologist at the time through to documentation of the trial and newspaper accounts. Throughout the novel you discover the hardships of croft life (“there are no other ships for us”) the starvatio...