The Cut

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 someon