John Lutz
2) Slaughter
Author
Series
Frank Quinn novels volume 10
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A PI pieces together a serial killer's bloody puzzle in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from the New York Times—bestselling author of Frenzy.
Frank Quinn was once New York City's top homicide detective-until a setup forced him into early retirement. Now running his own detective agency, he assists the NYPD on some of their most disturbing cases...
A woman's body is found in Central Park drained of blood, dismembered, and reassembled. Her killer...
3) Pulse
Author
Series
Frank Quinn novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a killer who blurs the line between male and female, human and monster returns with a vengeance after a 10-year hiatus, homicide detective turned P.I. Frank Morgan must stop the killing once and for all.
4) Torch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 will learn the truth and be overwhelmed with jealousy, she contacts Fred Carver, an ex-cop turned PI, and asks him to tail her. Minutes after he agrees, Donna drives her...
5) Shadowtown
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
The New York Times -bestselling author of Single White Female delivers another gritty cop thriller with this sequel to The Eye . NYPD cops E. L. Oxman and Art Tobin, who hunted a serial killer in The Eye , are back with what may be their most bizarre case yet. Shadowtown is the hottest soap opera in the country, even after the most popular character -- a vampire -- is killed off. The writers had little choice after the accidental death of the actor...
Author
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
An amateur ballroom dancer is targeted by a serial killer in this riveting mystery by veteran John Lutz Mary Arlington only feels alive when she is dancing. The rest of her life, dominated by a violent boyfriend and a mother intent on drinking herself to death, isn't worth being awake for, but when she dances the tango her troubles disappear. She's gotten so good that her studio is taking her to the national competition in Ohio, where she will prove...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 his home-a wealthy man whom he suspects of using his yacht to run drugs. A young boy recently washed up on the beach, Tiller says, and he's certain it was murder. Carver...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
John Lutz Is. . .
Will Harper was an NYPD hero. Then fate, a fiery blast, and departmental politics burned down his career. Now Will is again in the line of fire as a disgraced FBI profiler pulls him back into the action-on a hunt for a serial killer authorities don't even know about yet.
9) Spark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 old. But an anonymous note, asserting that her husband was murdered, shakes her resolve, and she seeks out help. The police are useless, save that they send...
10) Bloodfire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 who fled for no apparent reason doesn't quite convince Carver, who presses for more detail. Finally Ghostly admits it. His wife was beautiful, intelligent, and kind, but...
11) Tropical heat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1986]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Forced into early retirement by a bullet to the knee, ex-cop Fred Carver undertakes a missing persons case that quickly places him in mortal danger When the criminal's bullet shattered his knee, Fred Carver's colleagues called him lucky. Between his pension and the insurance check, they said, he had a nice, easy retirement to look forward to. But Fred Carver would rather have his knee. His career finished, his marriage over, he takes a halfhearted...
12) Fear the night
Author
Series
Night series (John Lutz) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A sniper's bullet kills a lowly theater district shop owner. It's the first of several killings in what becomes a twisted cat-and-mouse game between the "Night Sniper, " so-called because he only strikes after sunset, and retired New York detective Vincent Repetto.
13) Bonegrinder
Author
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
A bloodthirsty lake monster menaces a small town in the Ozarks When the men find him, the boy's legs look like they were run through a wood-chipper. He's bleeding heavily and near death, but he still has strength to tell them of the monster that attacked him: a dark, massive creature that emerged from the bottom of the lake. The child dies before he can say more. Sheriff Billy Wintone has seen too much superstition, drunkenness, and rage in...
14) Serial
Author
Series
Frank Quinn novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When a young woman whose life he saved years ago is brutally tortured and then murdered, Frank Quinn will stop at nothing to stop a sadistic serial killer who enjoys making his victims suffer.
15) Burn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 him that a local woman, Marla Cloy, has accused him of harassing her. According to her, Joel has been lurking outside of her house, following her car, even assaulting...
16) Scorcher
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 detective, he met Edwina Talbot, and ten months of life together has made him happier than he has been in years. But fate does not let men like Fred Carver stay...
17) Lightning
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 wants to have an abortion. Finally, love wins out, and they decide to raise the child together. Stopping by the abortion clinic to cancel her appointment, Beth is...
18) Kiss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 suspicious of the easy money, and seeks help in the shape of Fred Carver, an ex–Orlando policeman turned private investigator. Like Bert, Carver smells trouble,...
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