![]() ![]() The actual murder is of Lachlan MacKenzie and of two others whose identity is concealed until we are some way into the story. The question which remains is why he did it. ![]() He openly confesses what he has done and makes no effort to conceal his guilt. There is no question in this book of the guilt of Roddy. And in both you are still left wondering at the end what really happened. In both of them I could well picture the harsh life of the 19 th century. The conceit of the found text and the introduction hints that the murderer Roddy Macrae is an ancestor of the author, although it does say clearly on the title page that this is a novel, not a family history.īoth Alias Grace and His Bloody Project are incredibly well-constructed stories, written in beautiful language. Both books feature a gruesome 19 th century murder and both have unreliable narrators whose actions and motivations form the basis for their stories.Ītwood’s story is based on a true crime from 1843, while Burnet’s is based on a supposedly ‘found text’ written by a murderer in 1869. I was reminded of Alias Grace as I read this book. A few months back I read Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. ![]()
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