The Chill of Night

The Chill of Night is James Hayman's second instalment in his McCabe and Savage series. 
 
A frozen corpse means a big headache for Detective Michael McCabe 
Lainie Goff thinks she has it all. A glamorous young Portland attorney with the brains and looks to match her ambitions, she's on the fast-track to a partnership. Until one cold winter night she discovers that her belief in her ability to handle any situation was misplaced. Now she's just a frozen corpse in the boot of a car at the end of Portland Fish Pier. 
 
And a problem for homicide detective Michael McCabe. 
Luckily for McCabe, there's a witness. A mentally disturbed young woman named Abby Quinn saw what happened to Lainie. Unfortunately, Abby mysteriously goes missing the very same night. With a victim who'd known more than her share of bad guys, a list of suspects that seems to get longer and longer and his only witness missing, McCabe has got his work cut out. 
But it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again . . . 
 
Following the success of the first instalment The Cutting, The Chill of Night continues to follow Detective McCabe as he solves Portland's crimes. Fans of Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly will be hooked. 
 
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 York's largest advertising agencies. He and his wife now live in Portland, Maine. This is his third novel.

A stunning debut that gripped me from first page to last. A thriller of a thriller!

McCabe is a formidable detective tested to the limit in Hayman's atmospheric puzzler

Packs a terrific punch and comes complete with pace and panache . . . Hayman doesn't write for the faint-hearted . . . Taut, deft and with a delicate sense of place, this is supremely accomplished storytelling

James Hayman spent more than twenty years as a senior creative director at one of New York's largest advertising agencies. He and his wife now live in Portland, Maine. The Cutting was his first thriller featuring Michael McCabe, followed by The Chill of the Night and Darkness First.

A frozen corpse means a big headache for Detective Michael McCabe 
 
Lainie Goff thinks she has it all. A glamorous young Portland attorney with the brains and looks to match her ambitions, she's on the fast-track to a partnership. Until one cold winter night she discovers that her belief in her ability to handle any situation was misplaced. Now she's just a frozen corpse in the boot of a car at the end of Portland Fish Pier. 
 
And a problem for homicide detective Michael McCabe. 
 
Luckily for McCabe, there's a witness. A mentally disturbed young woman named Abby Quinn saw what happened to Lainie. Unfortunately, Abby mysteriously goes missing the very same night. With a victim who'd known more than her share of bad guys, a list of suspects that seems to get longer and longer and his only witness missing, McCabe has got his work cut out. 
 
But it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again . . .

The Cutting

James Hayman's 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 athlete's 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 York's largest advertising agencies. He and his wife now live in Portland, Maine. This is his third novel.

An engrossing account of a deviously motivated psychopathic serial killer

James Hayman spent more than twenty years as a senior creative director at one of New York's largest advertising agencies. He and his wife now live in Portland, Maine. This is his debut novel.

Someone is stealing the hearts of beautiful women . . . 
 
Portland, Maine. A missing high-school athlete's 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.

James Hayman

James Hayman's Portland is every bit as dark and sinister as Lehane's Boston or Connelly's LA

Darkness First by James Hayman is the third thriller in the McCabe and Savage detective series 
 
In the dark shadows of a summer evening a young woman named Tiffany Stoddard is brutally slain by a remorseless killer's razor sharp blade. 
 
Learning that her closest childhood friend was nearly killed in the same incident, Portland Detective Maggie Savage rushes to the scene to join the State Police investigation. Maggie soon discovers the killer's name is Conor Riordan.There's only one problem. Conor Riordan doesn't exist. 
 
The only person who can provide a clue as to who Riordan really is, is the victim's eleven-year-old sister, Tabitha. And now Tabitha has turned up missing. Soon Maggie and her long time partner, Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe, find themselves in a desperate race against time to find the missing child before she becomes a vicious killer's next victim.

James Hayman

Praise for Darkness First

A stunning debut that gripped me from first page to last. A thriller of a thriller!

Supremely accomplished storytelling

James Hayman's Portland is every bit as dark and sinister as Lehane's Boston or Connelly's LA

A stunning debut that gripped me from first page to last. A thriller of a thriller!

Supremely accomplished storytelling

James Hayman's Portland is every bit as dark and sinister as Lehane's Boston or Connelly's LA

A stunning debut that gripped me from first page to last. A thriller of a thriller!

Supremely accomplished storytelling

James Hayman's Portland is every bit as dark and sinister as Lehane's Boston or Connelly's LA

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