John Lutz

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 team of brilliant law-enforcement misfits. But in the concrete canyons of New York, this shocking serial murder case is turning into something very different… A Cop And A Victim Fight Back... Jill Clark came to the city with too many hopes and too little cash. Now a seemingly deranged woman is telling her an extraordinary story. New to an exclusive dating service, Jill is warned that other women have died on their dates—and that she could be next. Struggling against a death trap closing in around her, Jill has a powerful ally in Frank Quinn. But no one knows the true motives behind a rampage of cold-blooded murder—or how much more terrifying this is going to get…

When a shy girl and her dragon-like companion discover their country’s idyllic weather comes at a steep—and secret—cost, they recruit fellow students to defy authority and attempt to spread the truth. Storm beasts and their guardians create perfect weather every day, and Mina longs for a storm beast of her own. But when the gentle girl bonds with a lightning beast—a creature of fire and chaos—everyone’s certain it’s a mistake. Everyone but Mina and the beast himself, Pixit. Quickly enrolled in lightning school, Mina struggles to master a guardian’s skills, and she discovers that her country's weather comes at a devastating cost—a cost powerful people wish to hide. Mina’s never been the type to speak out, but someone has to tell the truth, and, with Pixit’s help, she resolves to find a way to be heard.

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 dismembered with careful precision, their limbs stacked into a gruesome pyramid and completely cleansed of every last drop of blood. To Catch A Killer—Or Die Next…Accustomed to working on the most grisly homicides, detective Frank Quinn’s nerves don’t rattle easily. But when the last names of the killer’s victims spell out “Q-u-i-n-n,” the veteran cop feels a chill run down his spine. Then a fresh victim is linked to the one woman Quinn can’t stop desiring. Hunting down killers is what Quinn does best. But this time, Quinn is up against a psychopath that will test him as never before…

There's a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card - a red "J"--The bodies of his prey. His victims have one thing in common: they've all been jurors in the city's most infamous cases - cases in which the killer was found "not guilty." Overnight, the "Justice Killer" has the city in a stranglehold. And there's only one man who has a shot at finding him: Retired homicide detective Artemis Beam, a man who has made his reputation hunting down serial killers. As the body count climbs and the city's legal system fails, the Justice Killer thinks he's outsmarted the cops. But Beam isn't officially a cop anymore ... and he doesn't have to play by the rules.

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.

"When he stumbles across his only daughter's corpse in a deserted beachfront bungalow, devastated Ezekiel Cooper [former NYPD detectice] vows to find her murder."--Back cover.

A grieving father hires Alo Nudger to look into the apparent accidental death of his daughter. When the father himself is found dead in a suspicious house fire, Nudger suspects the two deaths are connected. Joining Nudger is novice P.I. Lacey Tumulty, who can't decide which she'd like more--an answer to the puzzle of the recent deaths or a wild night with Nudger.

As Donal Gore awaits his execution in a Madrid prison during the Spanish Civil War, he is sustained by memories of setting fishing lines on the beach with his father back home in Ireland. Gradually, as he remembers, the events that brought him to a foreign cell emerge: the personal and political betrayals that are his heritage - and, it seems, his destiny. Released from prison by a German officer, who expects political intelligence in return, Donal returns to his windswept home on the Irish coast to find his once powerful father dramatically changed. The moving and magical heart of the novel explores the hopeless inability of Donal and his father to communicate with each other - until the father is literally beyond language. At the same time Nightlines centers on the poignant, intolerable triangular relationship that develops between father, son, and Rose, Donal's beautiful young stepmother.

Out the window / Lawrence Block Major crimes / Loren D. Estleman Silent warning / William J. Carroll, Jr. The third man / Graham Greene The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov Nameless enemy / Miriam Allen DeFord Tragedy of a handkerchief / Michael Innes Unc foils show foe / John Jakes Dangerous widows / Mignon G. Eberhart Ride the lightning / John Lutz Till Tuesday / Jeremiah Healy The day of the losers / Dick Francis The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lillian Jackson Braun The investigation of things / Charles Ardai The trailor murder mystery / Abraham Lincoln The importance of trifles / Avram Davidson The double-barrelled detective story / Mark Twain The adventure of the oval window / John H. Dirckx Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser Le Chateau de L'Arsenic / Georges Simenon The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman Crime in rhyme / Robert Bloch [The Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe [The man with the twisted lip]( / Arthur Conan Doyle