James Haymans debut thriller The Cutting is the first in the chilling Detective Michael McCabe series. Someone is stealing the hearts of beautiful women . . . Portland, Maine. A missing high-school athletes mutilated body is found in a scrap metal yard. Her heart has been surgically removed. The same day a young businesswoman is abducted . . . Former NYPD detective Michael James Haymans debut thriller The Cutting is the first in the chilling Detective Michael McCabe series. Someone is stealing the hearts of beautiful women . . . Portland, Maine. A missing high-school athletes mutilated body is found in a scrap metal yard. Her heart has been surgically removed. The same day a young businesswoman is abducted . . . Former NYPD detective Michael McCabe believes both crimes are the work of one man. A killer with surgical expertise who is targeting young women. Now McCabe and his team face a race against time to rescue the missing woman and unmask this sadistic killer - before it is too late. The Cutting is one of the scariest debuts of the year. And the first in a great new series. Fans of Richard Montanari and Michael Connelly will be hungry for more of this series. Hayman introduces his hero, Detective Michael McCabe in The Cutting , his gripping debut thriller. Later titles in the series include Darkness First and The Chill of Night . Praise for James Hayman: A stunning debut that gripped me from first page to last. A thriller of a thriller! Tess Gerritsen Supremely accomplished storytelling Daily Mail Taut, suspenseful . . . every bit as dark and sinister as Lehane and Connelly Richard Montanari James Hayman spent more than twenty years as a senior creative director at one of New Yorks largest advertising agencies. He and his wife now live in Portland, Maine. This is his third novel.