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Cutter
With a brutal hand, up-and-coming gangster Gordon Cutter and his associates are making a good living doing bad things, and heaven help anyone who gets in their way.The Armstrong family’s lives collide with Cutter’s illicit dealings when he sets his sights on young Livvy. Drawn into his web and flattered by the attention of this charming and successful older man, she doesn’t see what seems clear only to her brother Jack – that Gordon Cutter is a very bad man indeed.As Cutter expands his empire and ruthlessly removes those he sees as obstacles to his ambitions, he also attracts the attention of a local journalist, Millie Redman, and then a tenacious police constable, Rose Madsen.With pressure and paranoia mounting and Cutter’s iron grip on his criminal firm tested, how far will he go to hold it all together and keep his secrets hidden?Cutter contains extreme violence, cruelty and adult language.
250 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 21, 2016
About the author
Julie Morrigan
26 books36 followersJulie Morrigan is the author of various novels, novellas and short stories, and best known for her gritty crime tales based in the north-east of England. Her most recent novel is gangland novel Flesh and Blood, which follows crime thriller Debt of Honour, both published in 2024.
Gangland novel Cutter features the brutal exploits of vicious Sunderland gangster Gordon Cutter and his criminal firm.
For fans of short stories, Bad Times: North-East Crime collects Julie's shorter tales, originally published in the collections Gone Bad, Show No Mercy and Wired. Many also previously appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Bullet and Out of the Gutter.
Julie shares stories and news via her Substack newsletter, Bad Intent: https://juliemorrigan.substack.com/
Gangland novel Cutter features the brutal exploits of vicious Sunderland gangster Gordon Cutter and his criminal firm.
For fans of short stories, Bad Times: North-East Crime collects Julie's shorter tales, originally published in the collections Gone Bad, Show No Mercy and Wired. Many also previously appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Bullet and Out of the Gutter.
Julie shares stories and news via her Substack newsletter, Bad Intent: https://juliemorrigan.substack.com/
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March 20, 2017
I first came across crime author Julie Morrigan back in 2014 with the stunning novella Cutter’s Deal. The Cutter Trilogy gathers together the three existing Cutter novellas (Cutter’s Deal, Cutter’s Firm and Cutter’s Fall) and includes a bonus short story Behind Blue Eyes which inspired the Cutter saga. The collection follows small time Northern gangster Gordon Cutter as he claws his way up the criminal ladder. At the same time we see Jack Armstrong and his family drawn into Cutter’s world with devastating consequences. Each novella is told from multiple character points of view giving a well-rounded perspective, while during the course of the narrative we see Cutter ruthlessly use everyone around him in his determined quest for power. Talented author Julie Morrigan doesn’t flinch from harrowing and violent scenes which only emphasize just how utterly cruel, harsh and manipulative Cutter really is. One word which sums up the trilogy for me is mesmerising. I really can’t recommend this trilogy highly enough, it’s an absolute must read for any crime fiction fan.
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