[Ty Connell Series 03] • The Producer's Cut · Bobbi Stratos, Hollywood PI, Wades Into a World of Killer Secrets! · "A Hold-Your Breath Don't-Let-Go Adventure. You Race Along but ... Series. Suspense Action Thrillers. Book 1.)

Ty Connell, THE PRODUCER'S CUT, Book #1 in The 'Cutting it' Trilogy, is a mystery/suspense, action thriller in which the spirited romance at the heart of the book is just as compelling to the story line as the mystery itself, maybe even more so ...

A quirky undercover cop and a gorgeous LA private eye

work a series of gruesome murders in Boston’s film colony.

When a little drug runner girl is found savagely slashed and murdered the same night someone gave Hollywood line producer Lenny Danko's career a big push -- right off the rooftop at the FilmLand buildings on Boston's east side -- Det. Ty Connell senses a shadowy link in the cases. He makes a vow to one of society's throwaway kids: someone's gonna pay!

Danko's death -- and secrets that didn’t die with him -- rattle skeletons and shake up players all the way down to Hollywood.

What's behind it all? What else? Money, drugs and sex.

Lou Lazar, paranoid owner of Bugatti Films, wasn’t crazy about that burned-out screw-up Danko when the guy was alive. Now that he went and got himself dead, he likes him even less. With a film already done and almost in the can, Lazar’s now got to send hot shot gorgeous LA private investigator Bobbi Stratos up to Boston at big bucks to find out what kind of mess Danko left. Also to keep the lid on before it blows into a PR disaster.

She would hook up with the detective on the case, Ty Connell, and the sparks begin to fly from first meeting in more ways than one!

When sultry sexy D-list starlet and sexpot, Terri Arquette, starts to shape up as one of the prime suspects and zeroes in on Connell, everyone's life gets more complicated.

What no one knows is that Lazar has cut a deal with the devil -- otherwise known as the Japanese Yakuza -- to ship Burmese heroin north to the New England states. Danko's death threatens to blow the whole scheme wide open as all of Bugatti is under police scrutiny and the pressure’s mounting.

Meanwhile, psychotic killer, Razor Rutan, is busy silencing people with his whip-it switchblade and the body count keeps rising. Something's gotta give.

Lazar decides to head to Beantown himself to take matters in hand and meet the copper on the case. Why is no one surprised when his manic ways only cause more turmoil than calm and more questions than answers?

Connell then realizes that Lou’s got secrets. Killer secrets!

Everything comes to a climax when all players converge on a very public place -- an upscale indoor shopping mall in downtown Boston -- where the final cash drop is supposed to take place but where all kinds of hell breaks loose in a ghastly shootout.

Big questions are ... will Lazar get his cut? And who comes out of it all alive?

In the book, Michael Hughes explores a new world of policing; INSOURCE, intel sourcing. It is the undercover work of building a reliable network of CIs, confidential informants, and ICs, intelligence contacts. It is moving policing more into areas normally the preserve of the military and intelligence agencies. There is also another bit of cutting edge police work that his lead character, Connell, calls GSR, Guided Subconscious Retrieval, his signature crime scene technique that allows him to "see" things other don't. You will find those and other insider police practices you won't see on TV.

THE PRODUCER'S CUT by Michael C. Hughes is Book #1 of THE 'CUTTING IT' TRILOGY in the Ty Connell series. Look for Book #2, GIRL CUT OUT, and Book #3, CUT WORK. Someone's gonna pay!

Book #2 in 'THE CUTTING IT' TRILOGY by Michael C. Hughes, GIRL CUT OUT, features Dani O'Banion, a woman who wants revenge from the same man Connell does ... her crime boss stepfather, Johnny O. Someone's gonna pay!

Book #3 in 'THE CUTTING IT' TRILOGY by Michael C. Hughes, CUT WORK, features Dr. Julia Reesman, an ME battling PTSD and looking for redemption while working with Connell as he is handed a seemingly insolvable case. Someone's gonna pay!