Stuart M. Kaminsky, Author, John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (238p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2576-7
The fourth in Kaminsky's Chicago mystery series starring put-upon detective Abe Lieberman begins with a career burglar stealing into a home only to witness the man of the house murdering his wife. George Patnicks, the small-time thief--who's also a...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-05074-0
PI Alo Nudger, at the St. Louis airport to pick up a pal, offers his business card to a distraught woman just before an incoming plane blows apart. The next morning she arrives at his office with a wild story about a bomb in an attache case and a...
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John Lutz. Pinnacle, $9.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-7860-2028-7
The talent that landed Lutz the Shamus Lifetime Achievement Award isn't evident in this crude serial killer yarn, the seventh featuring Frank Quinn, after 2011's Serial. As 2002's Hurricane Sophia bears down on Florida, Daniel Danielle, an...
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John Lutz, Author Thomas Dunne Books $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-18152-9
""Certainly he was in a romantic business--viewed from the outside,"" thinks Lutz's low-key, low-rent St. Louis PI, Alo Nudger, early in his 10th outing (after 1995's Death by Jury). ""Writers like Chandler, Hammett and Parker had made sure of that."
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John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4379-2
Heat-seeking Florida PI Fred Carver (Burn, Torch, Spark, etc.) tackles the highly flammable abortion issue in his searing 10th outing. Carver's live-in lover, Beth Jackson, who is black, discovers that she is pregnant and, after much thought,...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-312-13613-0
St. Louis shamus Alo Nudger, still addicted to antacids, has a piranha of an ex-wife and an office above a shop selling the world's greasiest doughnuts. And, as usual, he's sleuthing through a humid Missouri summer. From the start, his latest case,...
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John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (278p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3480-6
Lutz's Florida PI Fred Carver, with his bum leg and failed marriage, appears for the ninth time (following Torch) in a brisk, riveting adventure. Successful developer and contractor Joel Brant is accused of stalking a woman he says he doesn't know....
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John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (290p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2610-8
Lutz's Florida-based crime capers, most recently Spark and Hot , feature PI Fred Carver. Tense and relentless tales, they are essentially linear stories in which the reader is drawn along in the wake of brutal and seemingly unrelated events. Lutz...
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John Lutz, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71447-6
In this latest Fred Carver mystery, Lutz sets his aging knight errant from Orlando, Fla., against younger villains on the nowhere fringes of the Florida Keys. (July)
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John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $19.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1993-3
Noir is a fitting descriptive for Edgar-winning Lutz's latest Fred Carver mystery (after Hot ), even though the middle-aged PI with a bum knee plies his trade on the sun-drenched west coast of Florida. After retiree Jerome Evans dies unexpectedly,...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-07693-1
Lutz ( SWF Seeks Same ) stumbles with this mystery set in the graceful world of ballroom dancing. St. Louis realtor Mary Arlington, whose mother is alcoholic and whose lover is physically abusive, lives for her mambo, cha-cha and tango lessons with...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-312-09922-0
Welcome in his eighth appearance, after Diamond Eyes , is St. Louis PI Alo Nudger, a decent, believable sleuth whose cooking isn't four-star, whose dialogue isn't from Comedy Central and who, while perfectly able to handle a gun, would rather not....
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John Lutz, Author Avon Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71446-9
Series hero PI Fred Carver tracks down Robert Ghostly's heroin-addict wife but ends up protecting her when he discovers that Robert is a notorious Florida drug dealer. ``A quick and jaunty read,'' said PW. ``While failing to build up much suspense,...
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John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $18.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1584-3
In this latest Fred Carver mystery, Lutz ( Kiss ; Tropical Heat ) sets his aging knight errant from Orlando, Fla., against younger villains on the nowhere fringes of the Florida Keys. Crusty old Henry Tiller--an ex-cop from Milwaukee living on tiny...
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John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0969-9
Series hero PI Fred Carver guards a client's heroin-addict wife in this quick and jaunty read. At first, Robert Ghostly seems sincerely worried about Elizabeth, but Carver develops doubts after he is nearly hit by a bullet that kills Elizabeth's...
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John Lutz, Author . Pinnacle $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7860-1515-3
Set in post 9/11 Manhattan, Lutz's (The Night Caller) gritty psychological thriller finds NYPD homicide detectives Rica Lopez and Ben Stack on the hunt for a vengeful serial killer whose modus operandi includes binding and burning his prey in...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-312-05165-5
Mystery writer Lutz ( Time Exposure ) here offers a contemporary horror tale that few readers will be able to put down. Things begin to fall apart for computer consultant Allie Jones when she discovers that her live-in lover, investment broker Sam...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-02990-6
Private investigator Alo Nudger of St. Louis beguiles the reader again in the fifth of Lutz's droll, deftly plotted mysteries. Timid Nudger, determined to be a mensch, gives new meaning to fighting city hall on an assignment from Adelaide Lacy. Her...
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John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.45 (262p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0412-0
Tropical Heat and Scorcher two of Lutz's 13 superb police proceduralsintroduced Fred Carver, a Florida police sergeant until a crippling bullet ended his career. Although dependent on a cane, he is a successful private eye, now investigating rumors...
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John Lutz, Author Avon Books $3.95 (0p) 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...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-312-00028-8
Edgar-winner Lutz (Nightlines, Ride the Lightning) will probably not win new readers here. Helen Crane, a beauty ""men build dreams around,'' hires private eye Alo Nudger to find out what's troubling her lover Jake Dancer. Middle-aging, old-shoe...
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John Lutz, Author Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-03-006958-1
Set in Florida, the new world capital for mysteries it seems, this is a taut, suspenseful private-eye novel by the author of the well-received Nightlines. With a tone and style reminiscent of Elmore Leonard, the plot concerns Fred Carver, an ex-cop...
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John Lutz, Author Mysterious Press $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-221-1
Shadowtown is named after a soap opera of which the most popular character had been a vampire. He was ``killed off'' by the writers after the actor who played him died in an accident. Now, however, someone has stolen the vampire's caped costume and...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (347p) ISBN 978-0-312-01389-9
Thirty-five short stories by Edgar-winning novelist Lutz are reprinted here, following a perceptive introduction by Nevins. Reflecting the ingenious plotting and characterizations in Tropical Heat, Nightlines and the author's other full-length...
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John Lutz, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-312-68235-4
Private eye Al Nudger is a long way from St. Louis, his home, in Lutz's followup to Nightlines. The detective goes to New Orleans, where Fat Jack McGee asks him to investigate blues pianist Willy Hollister, an SRO attraction at McGee's jazz club....
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John Lutz, Pinnacle, $7.99 (453p) ISBN 978-0-7860-2026-3
A page-turner to the nail-biting end, the fifth Frank Quinn investigation (after 2009's Urge to Kill) will leave readers breathless. After leaving the NYPD, Frank Quinn created his own investigation agency, joined by his former partner, Larry...
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John Lutz, Author . Pinnacle $6.99 (477p) ISBN 978-0-7860-1843-7
Shamus and Edgar award–winner Lutz gives us further proof of his enormous talent for crafting great police fiction in his latest, a deceivingly standard story that pulls retired NYPD homicide detective Frank Quinn back into action to help stop
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John Lutz, Author . Pinnacle $6.99 (478p) ISBN 978-0-7860-1635-8
Against the backdrop of a terrorized city, Lutz delivers a solid thriller with typical skill and style. Ex-NYPD homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation by running down serial killers. Now retired—in part because of a gunshot wound,
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John Lutz, Author . Pinnacle $6.99 (479p) ISBN 978-0-7860-1634-1
On a warm evening in Manhattan, 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...
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John Lutz, Author, Kensington, Producer Kensington Publishing Corporation $21 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57566-078-3
He's won an Edgar Award and several Shamus Awards (including, in 1995, a Lifetime Achievement Award), but Lutz (Burn, 1995) isn't likely to collect any prizes for this brisk but lightweight and predictable psychothriller. Anyone who's seen the...
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