Once one of New York's top homicide detectives, Frank Quinn now runs his own detective agency, frequently assisting the police on some of their most disturbing cases . . .
A serial killer is stalking the city for beautiful, blue-eyed blondes. He likes to drug and bind them, then torture them to death. Women everywhere are terrified, but the NYPD can't do anything to help. The case soon becomes personal for Quinn when his niece, Carlie, begs for help. She fits the killer's type, and worse, someone is following her.
Now Quinn must trap this monster before it's too late. He just needs some bait . . .
Praise for John Lutz
"John Lutz knows how to make you shiver." —Harlan Coben
"Lutz offers up a heart-pounding roller coaster of a tale." —Jeffery Deaver
"Lutz knows how to seize and hold the reader's imagination." — The Plain Dealer
"It's easy to see why he won an Edgar and two Shamuses." — Publishers Weekly “/p>
For more than forty years, John Lutz was one of the premier voices in contemporary hard-boiled fiction, producing dozens of novels and more than 250 short stories. His earliest success came with the Alo Nudger series, set in his hometown of St. Louis. Tropical Heat introduced Fred Carver, a Florida detective whom Lutz followed in ten novels. He later wrote five books in the Frank Quinn serial killer series. Lutz was a former president of the Mystery Writers of America, and his many honors include lifetime achievement awards from the Short Mystery Fiction Society and the Private Eye Writers of America. He died in 2021.