John Lutz

An ex-NYPD cop turned PI pursues a serial killer known as "The Skinner" in this dark crime thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Mister X.

The Killer Becomes The Hunted
She was gagged. Violated. Tortured. Nailing the killer is priority number one and only the best will do—that means Frank Quinn. And Quinn wouldn't want it any other way. Because he recognizes the victim. Years ago,

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JOHN LUTZ IS . . .
"A MAJOR TALENT." —John Lescroart
"ONE OF THE MASTERS." —Ridley Pearson
"IN RARE FORM." —The New York Times Book Review
"AMONG THE BEST." —San Diego Union
THE BIRTH OF A KILLING FRENZY
The killer has a pattern. Abduct a girl from a beachside community. Tie her up. Torture her to death. Move north along the coast. Repeat.
With each...

JOHN LUTZ IS . . . Some Killers Come Back For More The killer's depravity is insatiable. What he does to his victims is unthinkable. Homicide detective turned P.I. Frank Quinn has seen this M.O. before. A demented ritual, it's the work of Daniel Danielle--a notorious serial killer who blurs the line between male and female, human and monster. Danielle disappeared ten years ago. Is a copy cat repeating the crimes? Or has Danielle made a deadly return?...

Fear Leaves A Mark He mutilates his victims. Slices their throats. And carves an X into their flesh. Five years ago, he claimed the lives of six women. Then the killings abruptly stopped--no one knows why. Ex-homicide detective Frank Quinn remembers. Which is why he's shocked to see one of the dead women in his office. Actually, she's the identical twin of the last victim, and she wants Quinn to find her sister's murderer. But when the cold case...

A serial killer claims the life of Fred Carver's eight-year-old son, sending the ex-cop on a mad hunt for vengeance   A year ago, Fred Carver was nothing but a disabled ex-cop whose career, marriage, and family were all little more than fading memories. But then, while working as a private detective, he met Edwina Talbot, and ten months of life together has made him happier than he has been in years. But fate does not let men like Fred Carver stay...

After an explosion causes his lover to miscarry, Fred Carver hunts for the man who planted the bomb   Fred Carver's lover, Beth, is not a woman who wants to be tied down. When she learns that she is pregnant with the detective's child, she resists his attempts to marry her and initially wants to have an abortion. Finally, love wins out, and they decide to raise the child together. Stopping by the abortion clinic to cancel her appointment, Beth is...

Frank Quinn is a decorated ex-cop. A former homicide detective specialising in tracking serial killers. Now his niece, Carlie Hobbs, needs help. Someone is stalking her, and the NYPD can't stop him. A blonde, blue-eyed beauty, Carlie fits the victim type of the killer who's been terrorizing women, leaving them bound, gagged, and tortured with surgical precision. To win against the most personal adversary of his career, Quinn will have to set the perfect...

Investigating cocaine smuggling in the Florida Keys, Fred Carver stumbles on a crime far worse than drug pushing   When Henry Tiller barges into Fred Carver's office, the old man seems crazy. He tells a paranoid story about one of his neighbors on the sunny Florida Key where he makes his home-a wealthy man whom he suspects of using his yacht to run drugs. A young boy recently washed up on the beach, Tiller says, and he's certain it was murder. Carver...

John Lutz Is. . . Will Harper was an NYPD hero. Then fate, a fiery blast, and departmental politics burned down his career. Now Will is again in the line of fire as a disgraced FBI profiler pulls him back into the action-on a hunt for a serial killer authorities don't even know about yet.

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 --