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

Autor Chris Brookmyre
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2025

Tensiune pură. O dezorientare totală a simțurilor. Încă de la primele pagini din The Cracked Mirror, simțim cum regulile jocului se schimbă sub ochii noștri. Nu este un roman polițist obișnuit. Observăm un mecanism narativ de o precizie chirurgicală, care pune față în față două lumi imposibile. Pe de o parte, o avem pe Penny Coyne, bătrânica ageră dintr-un sat englezesc liniștit, parcă ruptă din romanele Agathei Christie. Pe de altă parte, intră în scenă Johnny Hawke, detectivul din Los Angeles, dur, cinic și obișnuit cu străzile periculoase. Imaginați-vă tensiunea psihologică din Broken Harbour, mutată într-un decor de puzzle metaficțional unde realitatea însăși pare să se fisureze. Găsim în această carte o ambiție rar întâlnită în literatura de gen contemporană. Chris Brookmyre nu se mulțumește să scrie un simplu „whodunnit”. După ce a explorat corupția în Quite Ugly One Morning și izolarea spațială în Places in the Darkness, autorul livrează aici un hibrid surprinzător. Ritmul este unul de rollercoaster, alternând între sobrietatea investigației clasice și ferocitatea stilului noir american. Apreciem modul în care moartea unui scriitor devine catalizatorul unei prăbușiri într-o gaură de iepure narativă care ne forțează să ne întrebăm nu doar cine este criminalul, ci cât de mult adevăr putem suporta. Este o experiență de lectură intensă, un amestec stilistic care sfidează orice barieră de gen.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349145815
ISBN-10: 0349145814
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Descriere

***Winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year***
** Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025**

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.

Recenzii

Chris Brookmyre is a magician with words and his latest sleight-of-hand will have you asking "How did he do that?!" So clever, witty and rewarding
A mind-boggling murder mystery . . . [an] ambitious and affectionate celebration of the many-spendoured crime genre
A truly masterful and mind-blowing murder mystery that will crash through your every expectation and blow it to smithereens. 'Cracking' dialogue, vivid characters and the sort of genre-busting twists and turns that will leave you reeling in their wake
The Cracked Mirror is like no other thriller I've ever read. It blows the crime genre to pieces and then puts it back together again in the most astonishing way possible. Give it all the awards now because this is the most original crime novel of the year
This is the most deceptive thriller I've ever read. What an adventure.
From page to page I couldn't believe what I was reading. Astonishing. Clever. Bewildering and unique. Only Chris Brookmyre could have pulled this off. He's a genius
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
A glorious masterpiece of captivating storytelling and genre. I've never read anything that works on so many levels at once. An unputdownable delight, especially if being stabbed in a public toilet is your thing
The most original thriller you'll read this year. Hugely ambitious and deeply rewarding, The Cracked Mirror is a mystery like no other. Inventive, emotional and exhilarating
The most purely enjoyable crime novel of the year
Cutting-edge . . . a brainteaser energised by its narrative splicings. The unlikely duo of Coyne and Hawke unravelling a mystifyingly complex plot is always stimulating
This is ingenious, inventive and groundbreaking. Crime fiction at its very best
An entertaining and thrillingly original adventure
A work of mind-bending escapist genius
Action-packed, the plot makes you wonder what the inside of Brookmyre's head is like - as where it ends up isn't what you expect from the start
The ceaselessly inventive Chris Brookmyre . . . Brookmyre's most ambitious novel to date - which is saying something - The Cracked Mirror is a tour de force of high-wire plate-spinning
WINNER OF THE MCILVANNEY AWARD


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.


'Chris Brookmyre is a magician... So clever, witty and rewarding' Ian Rankin


'A mind-boggling murder mystery' The Times