The Cut (Paperback)
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The Cut (Paperback)

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Paperback 416 Pages
Published: 17/02/2022
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One of crime fiction’s most original writers returns with a fiendishly twisty thriller featuring a jailbird make-up artist whose conviction for killing her lover rests on shaky ground.

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick

Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2022

Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2021

The entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre.

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.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349143842
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 287 g
Dimensions: 202 x 126 x 30 mm


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Chris Brookmyre is a genius, every new book of his is a cause for celebration - Richard Osman

I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller set in the glamorous/seedy movie world, it's DIFFERENT. Lovely characters with the sweetest relationship, it kept me guessing - Marian Keyes

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

The Cut is both strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - proving, yet again, that there's nothing he can't do in the genre - Mick Herron

It works a treat, with jokes never far away even when the odd duo are in peril, sharply drawn supporting characters and evocative 1990s flashbacks - Sunday Times

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 Cut is simply superb - Abir Mukherjee

Another twisting, turning thriller that displays Brookmyre's original touch - Scotsman

Dark, heartfelt, stylish and thrilling, The Cut is the kind of wonderfully original tale I just adore. Chris Brookmyre is a storytelling mastermind - Chris Whitaker

A smart, sassy and surprisingly tender crime novel - Irish Times

I could not put this stomach lurching, zig-zagging triumph of a thriller down - Scottish Field

Multi-award-winning Brookmyre once again serve up a delightful cocktail of murder and mayhem with totally engaging central characters - Irish Independent

A riveting, original thriller that also tackles preconceptions about age, class and ability - Sunday Post

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“Cracking read with strong female protagonist”

Like a lot of people, I look forward to Chris Brookmyre's releases so was delighted to get an ARC from Little, Brown and Netgalley.

This is a standalone novel and it's hard to summarise the story without... More

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“The Cut”

Millie Spark went to jail for killing her lover. An event she has no memory of. Years later, sentence served, she is still pretty broken, sharing a house with two other ladies. Until the day that film student Jerry... More

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“Chris Brookmyre at his best”

The Cut is the latest novel from the endlessly inventive and wonderful thriller writer Chris Brookmyre.
Chris often throws together vastly different characters at the heart of a story and he has really excelled... More

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