Not long after, Roddy returned home to find that eviction papers have been served to his family thanks to Lachlan Mackenzie. This caused Roddy to go to the inn to get even more drunk, where he was eventually assaulted by Lachlan. At the yearly village Gathering, Roddy drunkenly admitted these feelings to Flora, and Roddy learned that the feelings were not mutual. Eventually, Roddy became friends with Lachlan’s daughter, Flora, causing Roddy to fall in love with her. He brushed this encounter off and continued on. One day, on the way home from mandatory work put upon Roddy by Lachlan, he found Lachlan having sex with Jetta. For example, Lachlan reduced the size of the family’s croft and limited their access to the fertilizer, sea-ware. This allowed Lachlan to further his vendetta against the Macraes. Eventually, the Mackenzie patriarch, Lachlan Mackenzie became the village’s constable. Roddy tells of a long-lasting feud between the Mackenzie and Macrae families that is only elongated by Roddy’s killing a sheep that fell into the mud and suffered a broken leg. The Macraes are crofters as are the majority of the citizens in their village known as Culduie. Roddy’s account begins by explaining he lives with his father, John “Black Macrae” and Roddy’s sister Jetta. Much of the book consists of Roddy’s personal account of the events leading up to the crime as well as the crime itself.

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet is a pseudo-historical crime novel that analyzes the crimes of a seventeen-year-old Scottish crofter’s son named Roderick Macrae, Roddy. This guide was created using the following version of this text: Burnet, Macrae Graeme.

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