The Cracked Mirror

The award-winning, brain-twisting mystery

Chris Brookmyre

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Abacus
24 April 2025

Fiction & Literature; Thriller & suspense

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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.

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.

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 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.

By: Chris Brookmyre
Imprint: Abacus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9780349145815
ISBN 10: 0349145814
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 24 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chris Brookmyre (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 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. Brookmyre's novels have sold more than two million copies in the UK alone.

Reviews for The Cracked Mirror: The award-winning, brain-twisting mystery

Only the genius that is Chris Brookmyre could take familiar elements from the crime genre and turn them into something new, unpredictable and completely joyful. The Cracked Mirror is an original and hugely entertaining novel that will make readers guess and guess again * Jane Casey *