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The entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece.

Millie Spark can kill anyone.

A special effects make-up artist, her talent is to create realistic scenes of bloody violence.

Then, one day, she wakes to find her lover dead in her bed.

Twenty-five years later, her sentence for murder served, Millicent is ready to give up on her broken life - until she meets troubled film student and reluctant petty thief Jerry.

Together, they begin to discover that all was not what it seemed on that fateful night . . . and someone doesn't want them to find out why.

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

PRAISE FOR CHRIS BROOKMYRE

'Guaranteed to keep you guessing'
Ian Rankin

'Extremely sophisticated crime'
Sunday Times

'Exceptionally good'
Guardian

'In the pantheon of great crime writers'
Elly Griffiths

'Scales new heights of invention'
Times Literary Supplement

'Brookmyre writes beautifully . . . I was hooked'
Literary Review

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