Review: Pitch black and pitch perfect.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
Fifteen-year-old Jack and sixteen-year-old Livvy are good kids from a good family. Their dad has been made redundant and their mother has an accident which means that Livvy has to help her out with her cleaning job. One of the clients is Gordon Cutter, as nasty piece of work with ambitions of expanding his criminal empire. Unfortunately, Cutter takes a shine to Livvy which leads her and her family into very, very dark places.Morrigan cleverly switches POV from Cutter to Jack and then to Livvy contrasting the naivety of the teenagers with Cutter's manipulative malevolence.Cutter's Deal is simply a brilliant, heart-in-mouth slice of social-realist crime fiction. The real deal