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THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL
You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective. Always in trouble with his captain, always losing partners, but always battling for the truth, whatever it takes.
You know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite bumbling local police. A razor-sharp mind in a Sunday best hat.
Against all the odds, against the usual story, their worlds are about to collide. It starts with a dead writer and a mysterious wedding invitation. It will end with a rabbit hole that goes so deep, Johnny and Penny might just come to question not just whodunnit, but whether they want to know the answer.
A cross-genre hybrid of Agatha Christie and Michael Connelly, The Cracked Mirror is the most imaginative and entertaining crime novel of the year, a genre-splicing rollercoaster with a poignantly emotional heart.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781004182220
- File size: 336991 KB
- Duration: 11:42:00
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Miss Marple meets Michael Connelly could be an easy tagline for award-winning Scottish author Chris Brookmyre’s superb new novel, but that distillation severely underplays all that is going on in The Cracked Mirror, a truly mind-bending mystery. Yes, Penny Coyne is a tweed-wearing, elderly librarian in a sleepy Scottish village who has helped the local constabulary solve many murders (or done so despite their bumbling). And yes, Johnny Hawke is a hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective with a maverick streak who’s willing to bend the rules to find the truth and catch the bad guys. At the start, as Brookmyre flicks readers between unfolding mysteries in Los Angeles and Scotland, it seems like The Cracked Mirror is two books, or sub-genres, in one. Then Penny and Johnny’s worlds begin to mesh, as she answers a mysterious wedding invitation to a Scottish manor, and Johnny trails a person of interest to the same venue. As the oddball pairing are thrust together, The Cracked Mirror becomes a helter-skelter thrill ride that will have readers furrowing their brow and whirring through the pages. Are the echoes among some tragic suicides coincidence, or something worse? Why are Penny’s local police targetting Johnny, a fellow cop, even if he’s one from across the pond? It’s a tale with storytelling at its heart – the trail snakes through screenwriting, book publishing, and video games companies – and with plenty of heart among the hurly-burly. A terrific tale that’s unlike anything else you’ll probably read this year. Reviewed by Craig Sisterson ABOUT THE AUTHOR 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 writers. His 2006 novel All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye won the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize, and his 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. He also co-writes historical crime fiction with his wife, Marisa Haetzman, under the pen name Ambrose Parry.. Visit Chris Brookmyre's website
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