Man Booker Prize shortlist 2016: His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet is a tricksy, ingenious puzzle – review

In the media’s digests of the novels longlisted for this year’s Man Booker prize, His Bloody Project has been cast as the underdog. Graeme Macrae Burnet’s second novel, which is published by a tiny Scottish press and received almost no newspaper reviews when it came out last year, has been cheered …