The mutilated body of a young woman. The town doctor lying comatose in the road. A hundred and fifty tablets of Canadian OxyContin. This is the havoc that a merciless killer has wreaked on a sleepy Maine seaport.As detectives Maggie Savage and Michael McCabe investigate, they realize the man they are after does not exist. Nobody knows his real name. Nobody has seen his face. But everybody fears his blade.The only one who may know the murderer's true identity is an eleven-year-old girl--who has vanished into thin air.Taut, twisting, and starring two unforgettable heroes,Darkness Firstwill thrill fans of John Sandford and C. J. Box.Darkness Firstby James Hayman is the third book in the McCabe and Savage seriesIn 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.Following the critically acclaimedThe CuttingandThe Chill of Night, Hayman's third instalment in the McCabe and Savage series,Darkness First, is utterly gripping. Fans of Richard Montanari and Michael Connelly will be hungry for more.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 MontanariJames 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.Darkness Firstis his third Michael McCabe detective thriller.AuthorSort : Hayman, James