From Publishers WeeklyOn a warm evening in Manhattan， a sniper s bullet kills a lowly theater district shop owner. It s the first of several killings in what becomes a twisted cat-and-mouse game between the "Night Sniper，" so-called because he only strikes after sunset， and retired New York detective Vincent Repetto in Lutz s fast-moving crime thriller. Although the beleaguered detective is straight from central casting and the sniper s motivation is hinted at but never satisfactorily explained， Lutz skillfully brings to life the sniper s various victims. It doesn t matter if the killer s target is a Broadway star on the way up or a homeless person on the way down， in a few pages these people come across as layered and three-dimensional. One wishes Lutz had done as good a job fleshing out his main characters. (Nov.)Copyright ? Reed Business Information， a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.