My other two books, they are crime novels and they are certainly within the crime genre, but I think they kind of play a little bit with the expectations of the genre, the expectation generally being that when you get to the end of the book the crime will be solved. So yeah it’s a crime novel in that it’s about a crime, but I wasn’t attracted to write that book for generic reasons it was because I was very interested in the idea of somebody who has committed these very violent acts being able to write an articulate account of the events leading up to the murders, and as I was discussing earlier this idea from the French case of Pierre Rivière. His Bloody Project isn’t really like that because we know from the beginning that Roddy is guilty of the crimes. I just see it as a novel and I think crime fiction tends to have a certain structure, whereby very conventionally there’s a crime, a mystery, usually a murder and then there’s a journey through the narrative, whereby somebody solves the crime and that forms the narrative arc called the book. GMB: Well first of all with regards to His Bloody Project, although it’s a novel about a crime, I don’t really see it as a crime novel.
But no, it’s a perfectly valid question, so just ask the question.ĬR: Just what is it that attracts you to that? Or rather, how soon I asked it, because of course I asked it.ĬR: I thought the first thing that I’d ask you, is a general question about crime as a genre because three of your books are centred on… that is, that is the question…? Burnet told me before the interview that there was only one question he didn’t like being asked, but that he wasn’t going to tell me what it was. I sat down with author Graeme Macrae Burnet to discuss his novels, his influences, and his process.
Graeme Macrae Burnet (left) with Edinburgh Napier student Calum Rosie
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