Graeme Macrae Burnet was born in Kilmarnock in 1967. He studied English Literature at Glasgow University before spending some years teaching in France, the Czech Republic and Portugal. He then took an M.Litt in International Security Studies at St Andrews University and fell into a series of jobs in television. These days he lives in Glasgow. He has been writing since he was a teenager, but has just completed his first book, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, a literary crime novel set in a small town in France. He is currently researching his next novel which revolves around the murder of a village birleyman in nineteenth century Wester Ross. He likes Georges Simenon, the films of Michael Haneke and black pudding.
A brutal triple murder in a remote northwestern crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. There’s no question that Macrae is guilty, but the police and courts must uncover what drove him to murder the local village constable.
And who were the other two victims? Ultimately, Macrae’s fate hinges on one key question: is he insane?
發表於2024-12-26
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He is so good at playing tricks :)
評分讀前三分之一屢屢想棄畢竟這種窮苦農村老實人受惡霸欺淩的故事不僅不新鮮而且讓人很不舒服,乃至當中我簡直想哭,不是那種好的動情的顫抖的發泄的哭,而是壞的惡心的嗆鼻的有腐蝕氣味的哭。幸好故事綫不長當中還有牢獄談話作調劑,終於等到殺人現場還是有點觸目驚心的,筆鋒一轉的案件調查和法庭辯論也讓人好奇心達到最高,雖然齣現瞭敘詭常見的多視角敘事吊足胃口但其實沒有反轉。比起試圖瞭解他人的內心世界,倒不如讓刑罰隻針對人的行為而非意圖,這樣的話也就不用為原本可以有另一種結果但被硬生生剝奪的Roddy感到委屈瞭。審判探索的是真相嗎?我認為是高估瞭,審判隻是為瞭尋找社會能夠接受的一種下場,隻是為瞭維持秩序,它和命運的本真無關,它根本沒有資格被冠以真相之名,人類根本沒有能力尋找真相,頂多隻能是管好自己組建的社會罷瞭。
評分在殺人案的外衣下麵,其實是曆史小說,社會小說。當時蘇格蘭高地的生存條件確實惡劣,人活在那種環境裏著實不易。結尾有點失望,沒有很齣彩,敘述的語氣反而很含混。
評分形式像社會學case study的曆史小說,a slow burner。主角的心理描述非常細緻,配角有些單薄。庭審過程的描繪最引人入勝,不同視角的博弈也給讀者留下瞭一些判斷的空間。
評分庭審部分很精彩。微妙的犯罪心理。但大部分的故事情節和描寫沒啥關係,堆砌。
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