His Bloody Project, Graeme Macrae Burnet

I got 1/3 into it and didn't feel compelled to finish. I'm a history teacher, I spend plenty of time with unreliable narrators and real primary sources, and this didn't feel clever enough or original enough to keep me reading. Maybe there is an amazing twist in the back half, but I don't care enough to find out. The narrator felt like the worst kind of cliche, driven to murder by a mother who died and a sister who was raped, and he's so special and smart even though he didn't go on in school. True crime would have been more interesting, or a narrator I hadn't read about before. DNF