About the Author
John Lutz is the prolific author of over 30 novels and 200 short stories. He is perhaps best known for his 1990 novel SWF Seeks Same, which was made into the film Single White Female starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Lutz has also created two popular ongoing detective series. The first, beginning with 1976's Buyer Beware, follows the detective Alo Nudger and has a comic, quirky tone. A second, more serious sequence of novels beginning with Tropical Heat (1986) follows the adventures of the detective Fred Carver. Lutz has published four collections of short stories, Better Mousetraps (1988), Shadows Everywhere (1994), Until You are Dead (1998) and The Nudger Dilemmas (2001). His short stories have won numerous awards including a Shamus in 1982 and an Edgar in 1985