John Lutz

A case of mistaken identity gives St. Louis PI Nudger lumps and bruises. A female doctor about the size of an average linebacker leads him to a crooked alcohol rehabilitation clinic....

He mutilates his victims. Slices their throats. And carves an X into their flesh. Five years ago, he claimed the lives of six women. Then the killings abruptly stopped - no one knows why. Ex-homicide detective Frank Quinn remembers. Which is why he's shocked to see one of the dead women in his...

A major casino robbery turns sour when the getaway car breaks down in the desert. The robbers come across a nearby cabin but it is inhabited by an old loner....

Listen to mystery stories by today's top writers and the masters who inspired them. The idea for this collection...

No one thought Curtis Colt had been railroaded for the shooting of a liquor store owner, least of all St. Louis private investigator Alo Nudger....

St. Louis PI Nudger is called to help stop a man from jumping to his death....

Private detective Fred Carver becomes embroiled in another strange case....

Intrigue, crime, and murder create suspense in this edge-of-your-seat collection of cat mystery stories whose plots are all centered on a beloved feline, written by some of the finest, best-selling mystery writers of all time....

Frank Quinn, the relentless detective who made his debut in John Lutz’s acclaimed thriller Darker Than Night, faces his toughest –and most personal–case yet . . . An invitation written in blood . . . A madman is stalking women in the city. By the time his victims are found, they’ve been...

Ein Milliardär verschwindet spurlos aus einem Virtual-Reality-Abenteuer. Und quer durch virtuelle Welten nimmt ein bunter Trupp die Verfolgung auf....

From master mystery author John Lutz comes this collection featuring a gripping man-on-the-run novel and four of his best pieces of short fiction. In The Truth of the Matter, Lou Roebuck is a successful advertising man with all the trappings....

Fred Carver, an Orlando cop until a gunman's bullet shattered his kneecap, acquires a cane and a new career, private investigating....

Wilson Capp is an honorable man in a dishonorable profession....

Alo Nudger, the St. Louis ex-cop whose office is just upstairs from Danny's Donuts, is both the most normal of all fictional private eyes and the most surprising....

A local woman, Marla Cloy, has accused Joel Brandt of harassing her - but, Joel swears they've never et. He turns to Fred Carver to clear his name....

What was once New York's proudest skyscraper is now a heap of ruins, littered with the bodies of the dead and the dying....

Thirty-five short stories by Edgar-winning novelist Lutz are included here, following a perceptive introduction by Nevins....

A serial killer is on the loose, a maniac wielding a homemade flame thrower fashioned. He has murdered three people - and one of them is Carver's eight-year-old son....

Twelve tales of mystery from the pen of best-selling author John Lutz, Shadows Everywhere collects much of the author's early work....

Six dead women in a hotel room. Five of them students, still in their teens. Tied up. Tortured. The NYPD recognizes the suspect’s signature - three bloody initials....