# The Cut by Chris Brookmyre (Paperback)

**Preorder** **Chris Brookmy're stunning, unique new novel THE CRACKED MIRROR now**  
  
**A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick**  
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'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  
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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**

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- **Tags:** All, thrillers

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> Updated: 2026-09-12