Hello, welcome to BBC World Book Club,
where you get to talk about their books with the world's most interesting authors.
I'm your host, Harriet Gilbert, and today we're joined by Scottish writer Graham Macrae Burnett,
here to talk with readers about his novel, His Bloody Project.
And the book does concern a gory,
gruesome killing committed by the teenage son of a poor crofter in 19th century Scotland.
It isn't a whodunit.
From the start, young Roddy freely admits his guilt.
What the novel is, is a brilliantly ingenious, suspenseful investigation into why he killed.
So, Graham McCrae Burnett, first of all, thank you for coming to talk with us on World Book Club.
It's a great pleasure to be here, Harriet.
I know this was only your second novel, but you have written three since then.
Most recently, A Case of Matricide.
That's right, yeah.
I've written kind of two standalone novels,
the other one being Case Study and a trilogy of sort of detective novels set in a small town in France with a cop called Georges Gorski.
Well, having had your imagination in France,
I'm wondering how well you remember a novel that you wrote 10 years ago or published 10 years ago.
This book, His Bloody Project, has been really good to me.
It's the book that allowed me to become a full-time writer.