Thriller set in small English village

Submitted: 28th July 2025

The Cut – Richard Armitage

Thirty years ago, one of Ben Knott’s schoolfriends was murdered. As the murderer’s sentence ends, the same village where it all took place is chosen as the unlikely location for a feature film by a Hollywood producer, with Ben’s son Nathan cast in the leading role…..

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The Cut Richard Armitage

BOARDING PASS INFORMATION

Destination : Barton Mallet (fictional)

Author guide: Richard Armitage

Genre: crime

Food and drink to accompany: tea and crumpets

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A novel to transport you to a small English village

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Oh this is gooooooooooooood!

A small English village, a crime that happened years ago, and a danger that has come back to haunt the same village and people/

Richard does characters very well. Yes. I know he’s an actor and good with that kind of thing by nature, but to create characters on paper, that is something else. He gets under their skin, gets into their heads and really opens them up to the reader.

There are two timelines to this and both work very well – weaving in and out to create quite a tapestry of lies and hidden memories. The timeline of 1993 is really well done. The tension is something else and I was there for it. By the time I got to to end, it was like waiting for a kettle to go off and start whistling – I expected a dramatic ending and I got one, but I still jumped.

Despite the drama, there are some really poignant moments and for anyone who has experienced any form of bullying, yeah there are some moments. The Armitage has done is again. This would make a grea TV drama with a certain R Armitage in it. Just sayin….