"An American covert agent finds himself out in the cold after his investigation into a terrorist attack goes awry. Meanwhile, his partner hunts the killer of a fellow agent and runs into opposition from the highest levels of the NSA"--Adapted from cover description.
"You're strutting along, maybe even enjoying tempting fate, and then oops! you slip on a banana peel."-Alo Nudger It is impossible not to respond warmly and with affection to John Lutz's rather hapless private investigator, Alo Nudger. In this, his tenth attempt to make order in the chaos of the world around him, he is coerced by a very young, fearless, feckless pixie of a colleague named Lacy Tumulty to take over a case that she's too busy to handle. It's an easy assignment, but Nudger's agreement to help with the case is a reluctant one. Lacy, charming as she is, has a way of being followed by trouble. The client is a man who wants to prove his daughter was murdered. The police won't do it, so he has hired Lacy, who enlists Nudger. The daughter, alone in her locked house, tripped on the stairs, fell, fractured her skull, and died. Seems to Nudger it's almost robbery to take the man's money. But all is not what it seems. Lacy is beaten by an unknown assailant and devilishly crippled by the severing of an Achilles tendon. Even the delightful Claudia Bettencourt, to whom Nudger is "not married, but attached," becomes imperiled. But however much trouble this new adventure causes for Nudger and his friends, Lutz sees to it, as he has in his hero's previous escapades, that we readers profit mightily from the enjoyment this likable detective brings us."
A woman escapes from a mental institution and turns up on the doorstep of her divorced husband, a New York literary agent. He has remarried and has a son, but that's no problem, killing and kidnapping is in the lady's blood. By the author of SWF Seeks Same
A hard hitting and very commercial crime thriller from a New York Times bestselling author.
A beautiful jogger, drained of blood, dismembered, then meticulously reassembled on the grass in Central Park. Subway derailments, plummeting elevators, collapsing construction cranes, apartment explosions--all creating a bloody, senseless puzzle. Detective Frank Quinn knows that even while the slayer is taunting the cops and the public, he's also screaming to be caught. But Quinn will have to risk everything he holds precious to bring in this killer. . .
A hard hitting and very commercial crime thriller from a New York Times bestselling author.
From New York Times bestselling author John Lutz, a brutal and brilliant Frank Quinn novel
The unforgettable novel that inspired the classic film from New York Times bestselling author John Lutz.
When he discovers his daughter's corpse in a deserted beachfront bungalow, devastated Ezekiel Cooper vows to find her murderer. The former NYPD detective doesn't know there have been other victims, women who seemingly had nothing in common, aside from a grisly fate. Then Coop crosses paths with Cara Callahan, who's determined to lure her sister's killer by transforming herself into someone just like her, but Cara's plan may be working too well. Because lurking in the shadows, just as Coop feared, the Night Caller watches her every move...preparing to strike again
A former homicide detective specialising in tracking serial killers, Frank Quinn is a highly decorated ex-cop. And now his niece, Carlie Hobbs, needs help. A blonde, blue-eyed beauty, Carlie fits the victim profile of the killer who's been terrorising women - leaving them bound, gagged and tortured with surgical precision.