The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

Narrated by: Sarah Barron, Russ Bain

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW

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.

©2024 Chris Brookmyre (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd

Different...

I absolutely adore Brookmyre, he is sharp and hilarious in all his novels. But this one felt like it was trying to do something very postmodern and fell short. The male reader was fine, but the female reader sounded like she was reading aloud words rather than sentences.