Cut: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick

The Cut is a novel by Chris Brookmyre that tells the story of Millie Spark, a make-up artist who can kill anyone, and her journey to discover the truth about her lover's death twenty-five years ago. The book is praised for its originality, compelling storytelling, and dark, edgy humor. It is considered one of the best crime novels of 2021 and has received numerous awards and endorsements from critics and authors.

Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 04 March 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

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 Supurb


Abir Mukherjee

Weight: 672g
Dimension: 165 x 241 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408712153