Fresh off the success of "The Cutting," James Hayman brings Detective Michael McCabe back in an even more powerful tale of duplicity, murder, and revenge Glamorous young Portland attorney Lainie Goff thought she had it all--brains, beauty, and a fast-track to a partnership in a top-ranked firm that was going to make her rich. But then one cold winter night she pushed things too far, and her naked frozen body is found in the sub-zero temperatures at the end of the Portland Fish Pier. The only witness to the crime: a mentally disturbed young woman named Abby Quinn who mysteriously disappears the very same night.With the discovery of Lainie Goff 's body and the disappearance of Abby Quinn, Portland homicide detective Michael McCabe finds himself on the trail of a relentless and clever killer. A killer he must find before another life is lost.With "The Chill of Night "James Hayman returns to tell a gripping tale of evil and deceit and creates characters so real and so human, we want to meet them again and again.