cover image Kiss

Kiss

John Lutz. Avon Books, $3.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-70934-2

Fred Carver, a Florida police sergeant until a crippling bullet ended his career, is now a successful private eye investigating rumors about Sunhaven Retirement Home. ``The grip on the reader is relentless until the final, entirely unforeseen shocker rings down the curtain on Lutz's best novel so far,'' praised PW. (Mar.)