The Cut 9780349143842 Paperback

PreorderChris Brookmy’re stunning, unique new novel THE CRACKED MIRROR nowA BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick’Strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre – there’s nothing he can’t do’Mick Herron’I recommendThe CutSO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me guessing’Marian KeyesThe supremely entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece and the best crime novel of 2021.Millie Spark can kill anyone.A special effects make-up artist, her talent is to create realistic scenes of bloody violence.Then, one day, she wakes to find her lover dead in her bed.Twenty-five years later, her sentence for murder served, Millicent is ready to give up on her broken life – until she meets troubled film student and reluctant petty thief Jerry.Together, they begin to discover that all was not what it seemed on that fateful night . . . and someone doesn’t want them to find out why.’A twisty spiralling rabbit hole of a book that draws you deeper with every chapter. Brilliantly original, compulsively readable, right to the final page’Ruth Ware’Dark, heartfelt, stylish and thrilling,The Cutis the kind of wonderfully original tale I just adore. Chris Brookmyre is a storytelling mastermind’Chris Whitaker’This is a special novel. A brilliant, original, up-to-the-minute tale with all of the dark, edgy, humorous brilliance we’ve come to expect from one of the finest crime fiction writers in the world.The Cutis simply superb’Abir Mukherjee