title: Cut: A Medical Murder Mystery
author:  Amy S. Peele 
description: <b>2017 NABE Pinnacle Award First Place Winner in Medical Mystery<br />2017 Independent Press Awards Winner in Medical Mystery<br />2017 International Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Mystery/Suspense<br />2017 Mystery and Mayhem Book Awards Shortlist</b>
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  Cut and Run
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Novel by
  
  
  
  
  
  Amy Elizabeth
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover photo – Candia
  
  
  Baxter, Shutterstock Images
  
  
  
  
  
  Song Lyrics, _American Pie_ – Don McLean
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nearly two weeks had passed since the
  
  
  fire, but her singed skin was still tender to the touch. She dressed silently
  
  
  in the bathroom, wincing as she slid her bandaged foot through the leg of her
  
  
  jeans. The first slivers of daylight trickled through the crack in the
  doorway,
  
  
  casting soft silver shadows across the antique sink. She pulled her shirt over
  
  
  her head and drew in a long, pensive breath, studying her silhouette in the
  
  
  mirror.
  
  
  
  
  
  _You
  
  
  have to do this, Rebecca. For both your sakes._
  
  
  
  
  
  Her stomach lurched when she heard
  
  
  the quiet rustle of sheets from the other room. She pressed her face to the
  
  
  door and dared a peek through the crack, studying his form as he slept. As
  much
  
  
  as she tried not to, she couldn’