John Lutz

A local woman, Marla Cloy, has accused Joel Brandt of harassing her - but, Joel swears they've never et. He turns to Fred Carver to clear his name....

A major casino robbery turns sour when the getaway car breaks down in the desert. The robbers come across a nearby cabin but it is inhabited by an old loner....

Intrigue, crime, and murder create suspense in this edge-of-your-seat collection of cat mystery stories whose plots are all centered on a beloved feline, written by some of the finest, best-selling mystery writers of all time....

An amateur ballroom dancer is targeted by a serial killer in this riveting mystery by veteran John Lutz....

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....

No one thought Curtis Colt had been railroaded for the shooting of a liquor store owner, least of all St. Louis private investigator Alo Nudger....

Hattie 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....

Ernie, a down-on-his-luck gambler who owes the wrong people $1,000, is visited by two enforcers. To escape them, he climbs out onto a narrow building ledge....

Along a beautiful stretch of beach sits a state institution for the criminally insane. When an inmate is found dead on the beach, the rest of the men eye each other coldly....

He mutilates his victims. Slices their throats. And carves an X into their flesh. Five years ago, he claimed the lives of six women....

Fred Carver, an Orlando cop until a gunman's bullet shattered his kneecap, acquires a cane and a new career, private investigating....

When he meets Bob Ghostly, it’s hardly the first time that Fred Carver has been asked to find a missing spouse....

Private eye Fred Carver investigates the slaughter of an ex-cop, the murder of a man who was found stuffed to the gills with cocaine, and other crimes....

Fred Carver is hired by his good friend, Lieutenant Alfonso DeSoto of the Orlando police, to investigate the death of his uncle at the Sunhaven nursing home....

A serial killer is on the loose, a maniac wielding a homemade flame thrower fashioned. He has murdered three people - and one of them is Carver's eight-year-old son....

Listen to mystery stories by today's top writers and the masters who inspired them. The idea for this collection...

St. Louis PI Nudger is called to help stop a man from jumping to his death....

Private detective Fred Carver becomes embroiled in another strange case....

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