A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick 'Strikingly 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
