Audiobooks by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Benbecula

"Summer 1857. Angus MacPhee returns from a fortnight's work as a servant at a house a few miles away. He seems to have lost his mind. His family are forced to keep him shackled to his bed. When he appears to have come to his senses he is allowed to go at large, but his erratic behaviour gives rise to suggestions that he should be confined in an asylum. Neither the family nor the local community are able to meet the required costs. Liniclate, 1862. Malcolm MacPhee is living alone in the house where his brother's madness led to horrifying ends. His only contact with the outside world are a neighbour and the local priest. Isolated, ostracised by the small community, Malcolm is haunted by visions of his family's fate. Is he afflicted by the same madness? Worse, there are questions about his sister, Marion. Malcolm says she left long ago with their brother John, but no one saw her board the ship from Lochmaddy. Has something more sinister occurred? In Benbecula, Booker-nominated author Graeme Macrae Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of His Bloody Project to tell, for the first time, the story of the MacPhee family. Drawing on letters, asylum records, postmortem reports, and witness statements, Burnet constructs a beguilingly layered narrative about madness, murder, and the uncertain nature of the self."

Graeme Macrae Burnet (Author), Robin Laing (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Un plan sangriento. El caso Roderick Macrae: El caso Roderick Macrae

"En 1869, en una aldea perdida en las Tierras Altas escocesas, un triple asesinato particularmente sangriento sacude a toda la comunidad. La policía arresta de inmediato a un joven llamado Roderick Macrae, que aparece cubierto de sangre y admite ser el autor de los hechos. Y así lo confirman unas extrañas memorias que escribe ya en la cárcel, pero, antes de condenarlo, el tribunal debe averiguar qué lo llevó a cometer esos actos de violencia tan despiadada. ¿Acaso estaba loco o era perfectamente consciente de lo que hacía? Solo su persuasivo abogado se interpone entre Macrae y la horca, pero para lograr resolver el misterio y dictar sentencia antes deberán construir un relato sólido, sea cierto o no. Siglo y medio después, Graeme Macrae, descendiente de Roderick, reúne toda la documentación existente sobre el caso en su búsqueda de la verdad. Pero ¿puede un ser humano comprender realmente la mente de otro?"

Graeme Macrae Burnet (Author), Xavi Gardés (Narrator)

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