'A real box of tricks... a truly ingenious thriller.' - Jake Kerridge.

'A real box of tricks... a truly ingenious thriller.' - Jake Kerridge.

'Macrae Burnet takes great delight in wrong-footing the reader at every turn.' -Alistair Braidwood.

A brutal triple murder in a remote northern crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of Roderick Macrae, a seventeen-year-old from the village. There s no question that he is guilty, but why did he commit the crime? Was he insane? Whose account should we believe? And will he hang? A riveting drama.