I love intense murder mysteries (does that make me ghoulish?) but this one had a few "grizzly" factors that almost took it too far for me. This always happens when it involves any cutting of the skin with a knife or scalpel. I have a difficult time with this. The title should certainly tip one...
It looked like a busy night at Cumberland Medical Center. McCabe supposed the combination of a Saturday night and warmer temperatures was luring people out of their houses and into trouble. He stood inside the entrance to the ER looking for someone who could tell him where he could find Maggie. N...
They placed the bag on a stretcher, lifted it easily, their burden weighing no more than one hundred and thirty pounds, and began carrying it up the hill. The two detectives followed. “I should be the one to tell Tracy about this,” said McCabe. Magg...
He heard nothing. Saw nothing. For all that time he’d been lying flat on his gut, with Tabitha forced into a prone position next to and partly under him, his right arm pressing down on her back to hold her in place, his left hand clamped over her mouth to keep her from crying out. The soft flow o...
8:00 P.M. The note was in the mailbox when McCabe got home around eight. He didn’t notice it at first, hidden among the advertising circulars and bills piled up from deliveries he hadn’t bothered to collect. It was in a plain white envelope with the words DETECTIVE MCCABE, 134 EASTERN PROM pencil...