John Lutz Books In Order

Publication Order of Alo Nudger Books

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Publication Order of Fred Carver Books

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Publication Order of Frank Quinn Books

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Publication Order of Oxman and Tobin Mysteries Books

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Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Caroline Canfield Mysteries Books

Publication Order of Deadly Allies Books

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John Lutz is an award winning American writer who was born in the year 1939 in Dallas, Texas in the United States of America and is currently living in St Lous, Missouri, and married to Barbaras, although they constantly move between Sarasota and St.Louisin Florida. However, besides writing, Lutz is also known to spend much of his time either reading, following baseball, going to plays, watching movies or simply having to dine with his friends. He is actually a renowned prolific writer with not only several books to his name but also numerous awards as part of his accolades. Interestingly, John Lutz is known to have focused his writing mainly on mystery novels, having authored his firststory in the year 1966 in Alfred Hitch Mystery Magazine and since then he has published regularly ever since. Although John mainly focuses on mystery novels, he is however a very versatile writer, that has not only authored more than 40 novels, articles and over 200 short stories , but John Lutz is also known to have works that cut across so many genres and topics. His work and writing therefore ranges from political suspense, urban suspense, to private eye novels, humor, espionage, historical work to crime caper, occult, humor, police procedural, armature detective, thriller to futuristic as well as almost every mystery sub genre.

Plus, his work has therefore, not only been read and acknowledged far and wide, but some of his books,have also been translated to almost every other language as well as becoming adapted for production by almost every other medium out there, not to mention the fact that John was also, once the president of both the Private Eye Writers and the Mystery Writers of America, and like mentioned he therefore boast a lot of accolades and awards to his name that ranges from MWA Edgar to the PWA shamus as well as the Trophee 813 Award for one of his best short story collection that was also translated into French language as well as the PWA lifetime achievement award.

On the other hand John Lutz is also the author of 2 Privateeye series and the Nudger series, which was set in St. Louis while the Caver series which was however, set in Florida together with a number of other non series suspense novels. John Lutz’s SWF SEEK SAME book is on the other hand known to have been made into a single hit movie the Single White Female in the year 1992 film, as it featured and starred Jenniffer Jason Leigh and Bridget Fonda. Similarly, his other novel The EX that was also made into an HBO original movie with the same title to which John is known have co- authored the screen play. To add on, John Lutz is also known to have written stories for the jigsaw puzzles.

Therefore, John Lutz is indeed known to be a prolific writer with o many books, stories,series and novels to his name. Well, some of the renowned books and series that John Lutz has written include Alo Nudger, the Fred Caver to Frank Quinn as well as various Standalone novels together with other short stories that ranges from the Abridged, After the ball to all Business as well as the basement room, Day shift, Big game, El Palacio to mention just but a few. In any case, one of his renowned series and clearly a good read was the Frank Quinn Series, which is a story about a retired police captain Frank Quinn and his PI team, both of whom are special consultants to the NYPD out to hunt serial killers.

In the first book of the Frank Quinn series known as Darker than Night, the story begins when the muderer known as The Night Prowler turns a city that does not sleeps into one town that is now kept awake by terrifying ordeals. The Night prowler, gets into couple’s homes unseen and in an unsuspecting move, the Night prowler lingers around until the perfect time and moment arrives when he kills his victims and takes their lives while leaving them with gifts. It is in this wake that Frank Quinn, an EX homicide cop comes into the picture, while still coming to terms with quite an elaborate set up that contributed to the end of his career. For Quinn, this is therefore not just an regular call of duty or a job, rather it is his last chance to redeem and to salvage reputation.

Therefore, as the investigation is on going, the Night prowler is not wasting time but is otherwise stalking new preys, where he kills a loan officer together with her highly paid husband as well as a couple that made a great kill in the stock market not to mention some pretty actress together with her prosperous lover, all of whom have now been killed.With such a tragedy, the dilemma i now upon Frank Quinn to unlock the mystery of this tragedy and to end all this blood letting.In a city the size New York, any one among the 8 million faces could actually be this mysterious killer, or probably the Killers next target so Frank Quinn has clearly his work cut out.

Another series is the Thomas horn Series, with the first book in that series being the Night Spider.In this book the retired NYPD captain Thomas Horn and his detectives goes to investigate the mysterious death of some women that have been found killed as they slept inside their Manhattan high rises and behind securely locked doors. Each seems to have been sealed alive in her bed sheets and stabbed repeatedly.

The ordeal and the scene is so horrifying and terrifying that even a veteran like Thomas Horn is baffled. Nothing links or connects the slain women except for the cruel incident by such a cunning intruder. Some little clue points to some signs of wall crawling of a some glass cutting predator, who enters the bedroom windows with much ease. However, the killer seems to grow bolder and horns worst fears are about to to be confirmed.Since some where in the dark , there is a night spider who is prepared to take a new victim, and it appears that the killer is no stranger. The whole story is now about race against time .Thomas has no choice but to snare this psychopath, and to beat him at his own the killer at his own game or simply die trying.