John Lutz: 62 books

When a nervous husband asks him to track down his heroin addict wife, Fred Carver learns that not every client can be trusted   When he meets Bob Ghostly, it’s hardly the first time that Fred Carver has been asked to find a missing spouse. But Ghostly’s tale about a beautiful woman...

A serial killer claims the life of Fred Carver’s eight-year-old son, sending the ex-cop on a mad hunt for vengeance A year ago, Fred Carver was nothing but a disabled ex-cop whose career, marriage, and family were all little more than fading memories. But then, while working as a private...

JOHN LUTZ IS . . .   “One of the masters.”—Ridley Pearson ** ** “Among the best.”—San Diego Union ** ** “An enormous talent.”—Publishers Weekly ** ** LOVE THEM TO PIECES ** ** A beautiful jogger, drained of blood, dismembered, then meticulously reassembled on the grass in Central...

ON THE TRAIL OF A BLOODY KILLER… Frank Quinn is sure he is hunting for a madman: someone who is shooting young women in the heart, defiling their bodies, leaving only the torsos to be found. Quinn, a former NYPD detective, is called into the case by an ambitious chief of police and mobilizes his...

When a client dies in a car explosion, Orlando detective Fred Carver learns the man may not have been who he said he was For Bert Renway, it starts out as a simple proposition: a fat bundle of money to spend a few weeks impersonating Frank Wesley, a local tycoon. But after a while Bert grows...

After an explosion causes his lover to miscarry, Fred Carver hunts for the man who planted the bomb   Fred Carver’s lover, Beth, is not a woman who wants to be tied down. When she learns that she is pregnant with the detective’s child, she resists his attempts to marry her and initially...

When he is accused of stalking a woman he swears he’s never met, a local businessman asks Fred Carver for help clearing his name   Joel Brandt swears he’s never met the woman before. His wife dead six months before, the small-time businessman is perplexed when Del Moray police inform...

Investigating cocaine smuggling in the Florida Keys, Fred Carver stumbles on a crime far worse than drug pushing   When Henry Tiller barges into Fred Carver’s office, the old man seems crazy. He tells a paranoid story about one of his neighbors on the sunny Florida Key where he makes...

Fred Carver investigates a series of suspicious deaths in a stately Florida retirement community Hattie Evans, a retired schoolteacher, isn’t one to fuss. When her husband drops dead of a heart attack, she does her best to move on without too many tears. After all, Jerome was seventy years...

When a client dies in an apparent suicide, Florida detective Frank Carver suspects murder   Donna Winship is an ordinary woman with a typical problem. No longer in love with her husband, she has taken to spending evenings and long afternoons with a new man. Fearful that her husband...

A collection of twenty-seven short mystery/thriller stories with an introduction by John Lutz. The stories included in the collection: Until You Are Dead; The Chess Players; Explosive Cargo; Games for Adults; The Basement Room; Double Murder; Fair Shake; Heat; Life Sentence; On Judgment Day; Death by...

Edgar Award-winning author John Lutz returns with his newest Alo Nudger mystery—Thicker Than Blood. When shy, country girl-woman Norva Beane hires Nudger to investigate a possible securities fraud, he thinks it will be a routine case. He doesn't realize it will involve a wandering daughter, drug...

Wilson Capp is an honorable man in a dishonorable profession. While the others involved in the notorious Gateway scandal that toppled a President told all and made their fortunes, Wilson Capp kept the faith, kept his silence... and was rewarded with prison. Now Wilson Capp is free. And...

From bestselling author John Lutz comes a lightning-paced thriller of a city gripped by a killer's savage reign of terror. . . Someone is killing wealthy Manhattanites. One by one, the victims are discovered in luxurious high-rise apartments. Bound, gagged--brutally murdered in the "safety"...