• HOME
  • In Praise of Words and Pictures
  • BOOKS
    • A Fatal Obsession – Prologue
    • The Girl on the Bridge – Chapter 1
    • The Girl in the Glass – Chapters 1 & 2
    • Darkness First – Prologue
    • The Chill of Night – Chapter 1
    • The Cutting – Chapter 1
    • Reviews
  • NEWS
  • EVENTS
  • AUTHOR
  • BLOG
  • McCABE’S PORTLAND
    • Portland’s Art Scene
    • Restaurants
    • Sights To See
  • CONTACT

Search Results

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Yes, a Thriller Has to Be Thrilling. But It Can Also be Literature

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Posted in From The Author | No Comments »

Reading is Dead. Or is It?

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Posted in From The Author | No Comments »

Can an Aging, Gray-Haired Mystery Writer Become a 25 year-old Female Schizophrenic?

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Posted in From The Author | No Comments »

Want To Be a Writer? There’s Hope For Us Late Bloomers.

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Posted in From The Author | 3 Comments »

Defrosting a Frozen Corpse and Other Mysterious Oddities.

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Posted in From The Author | 2 Comments »

Insomnia and The Fine Art of Writing Murder Mysteries.

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Posted in From The Author | 1 Comment »

What’s the difference between a mystery (or whodunit), and a thriller or a novel of suspense?

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Posted in From The Author | 1 Comment »

The Top Five: A Personal List of Some of My Favorite Mystery, Thriller and Suspense Novels of 2009 (not counting, of course, The Cutting.)

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Posted in From The Author | 1 Comment »

Choose Your Hero Carefully. (It’s Kind of Like Getting Married.)

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Posted in From The Author | 1 Comment »

Literary Escort Services

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Posted in From The Author | No Comments »

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Join the mailing list!

Get updates on blog posts and email newletters.

    Recent Posts

    • In Praise of Words and Pictures
    • “Fatal Vision” and “The Journalist and the Murderer.” A Tale of Three Very Real and Brutal Murders and the Problems With Writing About Them.
    • The Story of Tom Joyce:
    • Conan Doyle for the Defense
    • Dirty Money/Clean Money

    Categories

    • Book reviews
    • From The Author
    • thrillers

    Blogroll

    • Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
    • Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
    • CrimeReads
    • Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
    • International Thriller Writers
    • Maine Crime Writers
    • Sisters in Crime
    • The Strand Magazine

    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."

    Buy The Cutting by Jim Hayman

    Bn.com Amazon

    Harper Collins Google Play

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.

  • Books
  • News
  • Author
  • Meet McCabe
  • Blog
  • About Portland

© 2026 James Hayman. All rights reserved.
Web design by flyte new media

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • goodreads