In an era of fake news, the Scottish novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet is experimenting with a genre that might be called “false true crime”. Now Macrae Burnet tells us that he has anglicised a second fiction from the same source. His Bloody Project review by Graeme Macrae Burnet – murder in the Highlands Read moreA foreword and afterword, signed “GMB”, suggest that Brunet left The Accident on the A35 unpublished because it was so painfully autobiographical, perhaps even previewing his suicide. So, with characteristic trickiness, Macrae Burnet has constructed a fake mystery novel that may reveal the truth about a fictional novelist. The front and endpapers claim that The Accident on the A35 turned up in a bundle with another unpublished Brunet manuscript.

Source: The Guardian November 10, 2017 07:30 UTC