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A Fatal Obsession

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    A Fatal Obsession

    "James Hayman’s edgy, ingenious novels rival the best of Lisa Gardner, Jeffery Deaver, and Kathy Reichs. A Fatal Obsession is his finest to date: a ferocious live-wire thriller starring two of the most appealing cops in contemporary fiction."

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About James Hayman

Born and raised in New York City, James Hayman spent nearly thirty years working as a copywriter and creative director for some of Madison Avenue,s biggest ad agencies.

In 2001 he left moved to Portland, Maine in search of the right kind of place to begin a new career as a fiction writer. Portland filled the bill perfectly. The Cutting is his debut thriller.

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Fog can be a sudden thing on the Maine coast. On even the clearest mornings, swirling gray mists can sometimes appear in an instant, covering the earth with an opacity that makes it hard to see even one’s own feet on the ground. On this particular September morning it descended at 5:30, about the time Lucinda Cassidy and her companion Fritz, a small dog of indeterminate pedigree, arrived at the cemetery on Vaughan Street...

Fog can be a sudden thing on the Maine coast. On even the clearest mornings, swirling gray mists can sometimes appear in an instant, covering the earth with an opacity that makes it hard to see even one’s own feet on the ground. On this particular September morning it descended at 5:30, about the time Lucinda Cassidy and her companion Fritz, a small dog of indeterminate pedigree, arrived at the cemetery on Vaughan Street...

"If Abby had been running a step or two faster, had she rounded the bend at Seal Point a second or two sooner, or i f she'd just been looking out to sea when the match flared in the second-floor window, she never would have seen it. In this, however, as in so much else in her life, luck didn't fall Abby's way. "


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