The best crime books and thrillers of 2016 The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/30/the-best-crime-books-and-thrillers-of-2016?CMP=share_btn_tw
"The usually mystery-sniffy Man Booker prize shortlist found a place for Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project (Contraband), a smart amalgam of legal thriller and literary game that reads as if Umberto Eco has been resurrected in the 19th-century Scottish Highlands."
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His Bloody Project