Cracked Mirror award winning brain twisting mystery

Winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVELYou know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite bumbling local police. A razorsharp mind in a twinset and tweed. You know Johnny Hawke. Hardbitten 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 crossgenre hybrid of Agatha Christie and Michael Connelly, The Cracked Mirror is the most imaginative and entertaining crime novel of the year, a genresplicing rollercoaster with a poignantly emotional heart. | Chris Brookmyre The Cracked Mirror : The award-winning, brain-twisting mystery