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The Cracked Mirror
2024
First Published
3.97
Average Rating
496
Number of Pages

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.

Avg Rating
3.97
Number of Ratings
2,835
5 STARS
32%
4 STARS
42%
3 STARS
20%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Chris Brookmyre
Author · 7 books
AKA Christopher Brookmyre
548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
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