The Cutting
By James Hayman; Jonathan Davis (Read by)
(Macmillan Audio, Compact Disc, 9781427206930)
Publication Date: June 23, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover
Categories: Mystery & Detective - General
 |     |
Selected by Indie Booksellers for the July 2009 Indie Next List“Detective Michael McCabe moves from the fast-paced life of New York City to the more peaceful and idyllic Portland, Maine, in order to escape his past. Unfortunately, when his new life is shattered by the appearance of a serial killer, it's up to McCabe to stop this madman before he strikes again. A clever and suspenseful thriller.”
-- Bob Connolly, Jabberwocky Bookshop & Cafe, Newburyport, MA
Description
Detective Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape the past: both the ex-wife who left him for an investment banker, and the tragic death of his brother, a hero cop gone bad. He sought to raise his young daughter away from the violence of the big city; so he’s unprepared for the horrific killer he discovers, whose bloody trail may lead to Portland’s social elite.
On a warm September evening, the mutilated body of a teenaged girl is found dumped in a Portland scrap yard. She has been viciously assaulted, her heart cut from her body with surgical precision. On the same day a young businesswoman is abducted while jogging through the city’s historic district. McCabe, now head of Portland PD’s Crimes Against People division, has reason to believe both crimes are the work of the same man: a killer well-versed in anatomy and who may have struck before. As the case unfolds, McCabe’s beautiful but calculating ex-wife reemerges, determined to reclaim the daughter she abandoned years earlier. But might the killer have his own sights on the detective’s home? In this irresistible thriller, the case becomes a race against time to rescue the missing woman and take down a brutal and sadistic killer—before more lives are lost.About the Author
JAMES HAYMAN was an advertising creative director in New York for thirty years before moving to Maine. He lives in Portland.
 |
1Q84 Haruki Murakami Knopf |
 |
The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
 |
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Knopf |
 |
Death Comes to Pemberley PD James Knopf |
