**Preorder** **Chris Brookmy’re stunning, unique new novel THE CRACKED MIRROR now** **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**