Second Audible from The Hobbit's Richard Armitage is Coming Soon

This week Audible has announced The Cut, the second fiction title written by Richard Armitage, star of The Hobbit and Netflix thrillers The Stranger and Stay Close and author of the bestselling thriller Geneva, is coming soon.

In The Cut, which will be released globally as an Audible Original, the storyline follows Barton Mallet, a remote village in the Midlands that has been chosen as the unlikely location for a new feature film from Hollywood producer Max Crow. Teenagers from the local drama group are encouraged to audition for a story about the trials and tribulations of growing up. Benjamin Knot, the CEO of a well-known architecture firm, discovers that his children, Lily and Nathan, have each been offered a role.

But Barton Mallet has a deep wound that has never truly healed. Once upon a time, the notorious Cheney End, a secret trail leading to Blackstone Mill, was the scene of a brutal murder. A young girl was killed, and a group of school friends had their lives shattered. One of them went to prison.

Thirty years later, the truth of what really happened in Barton Mallet is dragged out of the dark and brought into sharp focus.

Committed to film…forever.

Richard Armitage commented on the news: “I’m thrilled to be releasing my second novel as an Audible Original, given my longstanding relationship with them as a narrator and now as an author. ‘The Cut’ is a story of misplaced adolescent obsession and the damaged roots that reach from the past into the present… it’s my new passion project.”