FIRST CUT by Leah Ruth Robinson - BOOK - ADVANCE READING COPY

A serial murderer is prowling Manhattan's Upper West Side, leaving a child's doll at the scene of each brutal crime. Evelyn Sutcliffe has already crossed paths with the faceless, cold-blooded psychopath...and she survived. Others have not been as lucky. A tough professional addicted to the adrenaline rush of life-and-death emergency medicine, Dr. Sutcliffe has seen close-up what the so-called "Babydoll Killer" is capable of - observing his handiwork with the cool detachment her job requires. But her world is rocked when yet another brutalized young woman on the brink of death is brought into the ER. Because this victim is someone Evelyn knows: a medical student and respected colleague. A friend. In an unbearably tense and steamy August, a savage slaying perilously close to home pulls Dr. Sutcliffe deeper into the razor's edge bedlam of the ER - and propels her recklessly into the arms of a handsome and dangerously secretive fellow physician. And all evidence is beginning to suggest the unthinkable: that someone in Evelyn's tightly knit circle is a killer - someone supposedly dedicated to the sanctity of human life and as close to her as a heartbeat.