THE CUTTER
A Ted Mitchell Detective Novel

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Houston Private Investigator Ted Mitchell can’t turn away from the disfigured face of

Anne Trang, who comes into his office looking for directions and ends up his secretary.

Dr. Nguyen, a well known plastic surgeon has built his practice on westernizing

Asian Women—only not everyone ends up looking as scalpel-perfect as the beautiful

Madame Nguyen, the good doctor’s second wife. He had kicked his first wife

Thuy back onto the tarmac on that last fateful night when Saigon fell and

Dr. Nguyen crawled over her to get the last seat on the last plane headed for freedom.

Bud Mitchell, Ted’s father, had been a guest at the Hanoi Hilton during the war and later

Thuy became his own second wife after they settled on the Texas Gulf Coast and were

murdered in what was thought to be part of the violent Shrimp Wars that consumed the

Vietnamese immigrants who had survived treachery on the high seas to find freedom.

Ted became a Private Investigator because of that unsolved crime—so when he discovers

Hoa Tien, another P.I., on the tail of Dr. Nguyen, he turns into a dog with a bone, for

Hoa leads him on a twisted journey back to the moment when all their lives touched as

Ted’s father was made to watch his wife and her two children hung from the

stilt-house-railing of the home that Ted now owns and has kept sealed shut since

murder came to call. He finds the answers to questions that had set his course as a

Private Investigator so long before, but what peace they bring him offers little comfort.

INSIDE THE LOOP 
A Novel

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Houston Private Investigator TED MITCHELL is desperate to get over his ex-wife

DANA, when oil billionaire and founder of TexAmet Corporation

CAL EVERETT retains him to locate his own first wife

WENDY, with whom he would like a second chance at love.

TED is summoned to a meeting with Everett’s second wife

SYLVIA and is slammed by a fierce attraction to her. Too bad

DANA is not ready to let him off the leash.

SYLVIA tells Ted where he can find Wendy, whereupon

CAL and WENDY remarry and Cal prepares to relinquish CEO duties. He informs

CARLISLE, his corporate lieutenant that he will not be advancing to the position.

CAL is shot, of course, and the murder weapon is found in the possession of

SYLVIA who is promptly arrested, and the evidence keeps turning up in her home—bloody shoes, and a blood-smeared Armani suit.

TED concentrates on who has access to Sylvia’s home…Carlisle? Wendy? Even Dana?

DANA pulls a gun on Ted and threatens suicide. They wrestle for the weapon, and she is shot through the heart.

Helluva way to finally break free.

TED leans doubly hard on

CARLISLE, who leads him to the real murderer.

Case closed?

Not yet—it will take one last murder to finally close the loop before the story ends.