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The Cracked Mirror

Von: Chris Brookmyre
Gesprochen von: Sarah Barron, Russ Bain
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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.

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This reminded me a lot of Brookmyre's earlier books. You know, the ones with all the craziness, mad conspiracy theories, random shootings, wild car chases, terrorists and other psychopaths popping up left and right. He hasn't published anything of the kind for a while (though "The Cut" did come close at times).

"The Cracked Mirror" starts harmless enough with two separate (deliberately cliché-ridden) storylines. There's Penny Coyne (!) in her picture perfect village in Scotland, an octogenarian amateur sleuth. Then there's Johnny Hawke, a world-weary and tough LAPD detective who's seen and done it all. After a while their worlds collide... and all hell breaks loose.

This is a book you should go in blind. You should pay close attention to the narrative, because it soon gets rather complicated (and a bit confusing). This will not be to everybody's taste, but then Brookmyre's novels rarely are (but I guess you could say that about every author). I quite enjoyed the (unexpectedly) crazy ride, the humour and the interactions between two characters belonging to completely different genres. It's fun and original and therefore vintage Brookmyre.

I mostly liked the two narrators. Sarah Barron reads Penny's chapters in her very pleasant Scottish accent, Russ Bain reads Johnny's in a (somewhat generic, but quite convincing) American one. However, they switch whenever Johnny appears in Penny's chapters an vice versa. Not a problem in Bain's case, but Barron's version of an American accent (a monotone drawl) is annoying rather than convincing.

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