The Cut : A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick

Synopsis: 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.

Author: Brookmyre, Chris

Format: Paperback

Pagination: 416 pages

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Publication Date: 17/02/2022

BIC: Fiction & related items