His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae is a 2015 novel by Graeme Macrae Burnet. Using fictional historical documents, it tells the story of a 17-year-old boy named Roderick "Roddy" Macrae, who committed a triple homicide in the village of Culduie on the Applecross peninsula, circa 1869.

Is His Bloody Project based on a true story?

The story of what led to the deaths and the trial of Roddy Macrae is told in vivid detail by Graeme Macrae Burnet in his Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel His Bloody Project. The village of Culduie is real and so are many of the characters in the novel but the tale told by Burnet is a fiction.

What is the real name of the author of the bloody project?

Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.