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The Cut

On sale

17th February 2022

Price: £9.99

Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2022

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349143842

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A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick



‘S
trikingly original and definitively Brookmyre – there’s nothing he can’t do’
Mick Herron

‘I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me guessing’
Marian Keyes

The 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 Cut is 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 Cut is simply superb’
Abir Mukherjee

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Reviews

Irish Times
A smart, sassy and surprisingly tender crime novel
Sunday Times
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
Chris Whitaker
Dark, heartfelt, stylish and thrilling, The Cut is the kind of wonderfully original tale I just adore. Chris Brookmyre is a storytelling mastermind
Irish Independent
Multi-award-winning Brookmyre once again serve up a delightful cocktail of murder and mayhem with totally engaging central characters
Abir Mukherjee
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
Mick Herron
The Cut is both strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - proving, yet again, that there's nothing he can't do in the genre
Ruth Ware
A twisty spiralling rabbit hole of a book that draws you deeper with every chapter. Brilliantly original, compulsively readable, right to the final page
Richard Osman
Chris Brookmyre is a genius, every new book of his is a cause for celebration
Marian Keyes
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
Scottish Field
I could not put this stomach lurching, zig-zagging triumph of a thriller down
Sunday Post
A riveting, original thriller that also tackles preconceptions about age, class and ability
Scotsman
Another twisting, turning thriller that displays Brookmyre's original touch