A Grisly Crime Told Through Lost Documents

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 20, 2017

Bestselling author Graeme Macrae Burnet joins us to discuss his latest book, His Bloody Project, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. The book weaves together "found documents" like doctor's reports and a memoir to tell the story of a brutal triple murder in the Scottish Highlands in 1869. 

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