The Cutting (Standard format, CD)

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.