John Lutz

John Lutz is an award winning American writer who was born in the year 1939 in Dallas, Texas in the United States of America and is currently living in St Lous, Missouri, and married to Barbaras, although they constantly move between Sarasota and St.Louisin Florida. However, besides writing, Lutz is also known to spend much of his time either reading, following baseball, going to plays, watching movies or simply having to dine with his friends. He is actually a renowned prolific writer with not only several books to his name but also numerous awards as part of his accolades.

The best place to start is the Alo Nudger series, the earliest of John Lutz's multi-book series: it opens with Buyer Beware (1976) and runs to 10 books across 1976–1998, ending with Oops! (1998). John Lutz's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

John Lutz has 217 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1971 and 2025. 164 of them belong to 8 named series — the largest being the Frank Quinn series with 13 books — and 53 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. John Lutz's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Alo Nudger (1976–1998, 10 books), Oxman and Tobin Mysteries (1984–1988, 2 books) and Fred Carver (1986–1996, 10 books), plus 4 more.

This guide splits John Lutz's 217 books into 8 named series and 53 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Frank Quinn (13 books, 2004–2015); Alo Nudger (10 books, 1976–1998); Fred Carver (10 books, 1986–1996); Night (5 books, 2001–2006); Thomas Laker (2 books, 2018–2019), plus 3 further series.