Chris Brookmyre is one of Britain's leading crime writers. His 2016 novel _Black Widow_ won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award.
We welcome Chris to the bookshop for his new novel,_ The Cracked Mirror_, which has been described as "the most original thriller you'll read this year. Hugely ambitious and deeply rewarding, _The Cracked Mirror_ is a mystery like no other."
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.
_FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW -__
__THIS IS NOT_ _THAT_ _CRIME NOVEL._
_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 twinset and tweed.
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_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.
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_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._