John Lutz

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 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....

When he meets Bob Ghostly, it’s hardly the first time that Fred Carver has been asked to find a missing spouse....

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....

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

Martin Karpp was Alan Hobson, a compulsive thief. He was Willy Bennet, a flagrant homosexual. He was Jay Jefferson, a fanatic right-winger....

Twelve tales of mystery from the pen of best-selling author John Lutz, Shadows Everywhere collects much of the author's early work. You'll meet everyone from a “hardscrabble farm woman” to a volatile trucker with an explosive cargo, a cliff driver with dreams of gold, and women who are...

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....

Along a beautiful stretch of beach sits a state institution for the criminally insane. When an inmate is found dead on the beach, the rest of the men eye each other coldly....

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....

Private eye Fred Carver investigates the slaughter of an ex-cop, the murder of a man who was found stuffed to the gills with cocaine, and other crimes....

Ernie, a down-on-his-luck gambler who owes the wrong people $1,000, is visited by two enforcers. To escape them, he climbs out onto a narrow building ledge....

An amateur ballroom dancer is targeted by a serial killer in this riveting mystery by veteran John Lutz....

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

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....

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

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...

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....

The killer's depravity is insatiable. What he does to his victims is unthinkable. Homicide detective turned P.I. Frank Quinn has seen this M.O. before. A demented ritual, it's the work of Daniel Danielle - a notorious serial killer who blurs the line between male and female, human and monster...