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John Lutz
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Coffee & Crime Breakfast starting at 10 am
 We're very pleased that award-winning author John Lutz will make his very first visit to MLB on Saturday, September 24 at 10 am. He'll be here with his sixth Frank Quinn book Serial.
TheCoffee & Crime author breakfast begins at 10 am and includes a light meal, talk and signing. Cost is $5 and reservations are necessary.
You can purchase tickets online. For multiple ticket purchases you can adjust the quantity in the shopping cart before you check out.
 Ticket to the John Lutz Coffee & Crime breakfast, $5
We asked Elaine Viets, who is also from St. Louis originally, to do a short interview with John Lutz. Here's what she sent:
John Lutz Interview
By Elaine Viets
John Lutz came to my first book signing in January, 1997. It was two below zero in St. Louis, and three people braved the bitter weather. I was a former newspaper columnist, and John welcomed me to his profession.
“Congratulations,” he said. “You’ve managed to find an industry more screwed up than newspapers.”
That’s John – and his books. He sounds hardboiled, but John is a secret softy. Like Nudger, one of his private eyes, he’s also funny.
I’m not the only one who admires John’s writing. He’s won the Edgar Award, two Shamuses, the Short Mystery Fiction Society Golden Derringer Award, the Trophee 813 Award, and the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award.
Tell us a little about your new novel, “Serial.”
It has fast action, a twisting plot, a devious serial killer, and superb detective work, according to the cover. Also, I wrote it because I kept seeing men wrongly convicted of rape set free on DNA evidence, sometimes after ten or twenty years in prison. The media told us a lot about how they felt, but not much if anything about how the women who wrongly identified them felt. Did they feel guilty, frightened, angry? And they had the knowledge that the rapist who really attacked them was still free and perhaps in near proximity. Seemed to me there was a book there.
Which of your mysteries would appeal to women readers who may not like hard-boiled novels or thrillers?
Judging by the e-mails I receive, most of the readers of my serial killer novels are women. They seem to enjoy what my editor calls “a good safe scare.” Many of them sincerely thank me for scaring them. But for those who don't like such a scare I would recommend the Nudger novels. Though Nudger himself is frequently scared.
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