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The Cut

By: Chris Brookmyre
Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
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The entertaining, moving and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning best seller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece.

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.

Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite Ugly One Morning, which established him as one of Britain's leading crime novelists. His 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. Brookmyre's novels novels have sold more than two million copies in the UK alone.

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Fantastic story with perfect narration. Having discovered Brookmyre through the Parlabane books, I've found his standalone novels to be excellent.

Brilliant

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Believable? No.
Fun listen? Yes.
Some good twists, good pace, outrageous coincidences, and a rather unusual two main protagonists which made it warmer than similar japes.

Good fun, if you can suspend the disbelief

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I love the way Chris knits the tale together from different stories with a final twist.

Another excellent story from Chris!

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I nearly didn’t buy this book, due to the criticisms of the Narrator, but she was absolutely fine!! I’m so glad I did though. Brookmyre is sooooo good! Other than once, near the beginning, I didn’t get the laugh out loud moments others have described (no spoilers but it was regarding a phone; and I loved the Hitch Hikers Guide reference) as I was too tense. I had no idea where the story was going and cared so much about the characters that I couldn’t relax. This story was unlike anything I’ve read before and for me, the Narrator did an excellent job of identifying each character vocally. I’ve found even my favourite Narrators can mis-pronounce or misread the odd word, so while I haven’t given her a perfect 5, I was more than happy with her performance. There isn’t a Chris - or Christopher - Brookmyre book I haven’t enjoyed, and this one continues his 100% record for me. I have a distinct preference for series though and hope he will get back to them as well as creating such captivating stand-alone stories.

Bloody Marvellous

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I like pretty much everything CB puts down on paper but this is up there with the best. Plenty of twists and turns, two strong leads and a cast of good supporting characters.

Super narration and accents from Eilidh Beaton too. Hope she gets more in this series if that materialises in future.

On the money

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