I read this February 2017 it was Lawshall Book Club book for March.
I had previously read the Disappearance of Adele Badeau . This is vey different.
It is set n the highlands in a small crofting village.
We know that there has been a triple murder and we have the young murderer's memories. Then the point of view of the Advocate and Physiologist.
Robert in the protagonist is still at school and is very illtelegent and the schoolmaster wants him to carry n his education, but it is not to be as he is needed on the Croft. He lives with his drunken violent, lazy father, his sister and baby twins, the mother has died.
Life is very hand to mouth, with no prospects, life is hard and made harder by a new sheriff who is basically a bully who starts a vindictive campaign against the family.
Pushed beyond his limits, His Bloody Project is to rid himself and his family of this hateful man....
Nice to see the bully get his comeuppance, but the two other murders are collateral damage, as is poor Roberts and his family's fate.
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