JOHN LUTZ IS. . ."A MAJOR TALENT." –John Lescroart"ONE OF THE MASTERS." –Ridley Pearson"IN RARE FORM." –The New York Times Book Review"AMONG THE BEST." –San Diego UnionTHE HUNT BEGINS. . .AGAINWill 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 profi...

A horrific discovery at a hotel sends PI Frank Quinn and the NYPD after a madman in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling Shamus Award winner.When half a dozen bodies are found in a hotel room, tied up and with a set of initials carved into their foreheads, the NYPD recognizes the signature of a serial killer. Ex-cop and PI Frank Quinn has faced this perpetrator in the past—and paid a price for it. But he intends to stop the murderer once and for...

JOHN LUTZ IS . . ."A MAJOR TALENT." —John Lescroart"ONE OF THE MASTERS." —Ridley Pearson"IN RARE FORM." —The New York Times Book Review"AMONG THE BEST." —San Diego Union**THE BIRTH OF A KILLING FRENZYThe killer has a pattern. Abduct a girl from a beachside community. Tie her up. Torture her to death. Move north along the coast. Repeat.

A suspense thriller set in the Ozarks from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Night Caller, who "knows how to make you shiver" (Harlan Coben).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 mo...

Find The Cat, Catch The KillerDead in her penthouse apartment. Designer scarf around her neck. Dismembered finger in a place it should never be. What the police haven't found is her diamond-and-ruby bracelet, switched with a cheap imitation. A bracelet that mysteriously ended up around the neck of a little girl's pet cat. Now the feline is missing, the killer has struck again--and former NYPD detective Frank Quinn has to track down both the cat and the culprit befo...

When a nervous husband asks him to track down his heroin addict wife, Fred Carver learns that not every client can be trustedWhen 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 she was also a hero...

After an explosion causes his lover to miscarry, Fred Carver hunts for the man who planted the bombFred 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 caught in an explosio...

Fred Carver investigates a series of suspicious deaths in a stately Florida retirement communityHattie 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 her to Fred Carver—a f...

Investigating cocaine smuggling in the Florida Keys, Fred Carver stumbles on a crime far worse than drug pushingWhen 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 is uninterested u...

When a client dies in an apparent suicide, Florida detective Frank Carver suspects murderDonna 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 car into a speeding...

When he is accused of stalking a woman he swears he's never met, a local businessman asks Fred Carver for help clearing his nameJoel 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 her at the grocery s...

An amateur ballroom dancer is targeted by a serial killer in this riveting mystery by veteran John LutzMary 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 to the world and...