K Is for Killer: A Kinsey Millhone Novel: 11 (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) - Softcover

Grafton, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312373120 ISBN 13: 9780312373122

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2009

Synopsis

Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her.

Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious: Lorna's body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn't be certain she hadn't died of natural causes. In the way of overworked cops everywhere, the case was gradually shifted to the back burner and became another unsolved file.

Only Lorna's mother kept it alive, consumed by the certainty that somebody out there had gotten away with murder.

In the ten months since her daughter's death, Janice Kepler had joined a support group, trying to come to terms with her loss and her anger. It wasn't helping. And so, leaving a session one evening and noticing a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she knocked on the door.

In answering that knock, Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the netherworld of unavenged murder, where only a pact with the devil will satisfy the restless ghosts of the victims and give release to the living they have left behind.

Eleven books into the series that has won her readers around the world, Sue Grafton takes a darkside turn, pitching us into a shadow land of pain and grief where killers still walk free, unaccused, unpunished, unrepentant. With "K" is for Killer she offers a tale that is dark, complex, and deeply disturbing.

"A" Is for Alibi
"B" Is for Burglar
"C" Is for Corpse
"D" Is for Deadbeat
"E" Is for Evidence
"F" Is for Fugitive
"G" Is for Gumshoe
"H" Is for Homicide
"I" Is for Innocent
"J" Is for Judgment
"K" Is for Killer
"L" is for Lawless
"M" Is for Malice
"N" Is for Noose
"O" Is for Outlaw
"P" Is for Peril
"Q" Is for Quarry
"R" Is for Ricochet
"S" Is for Silence
"T" Is for Trespass
"U" Is for Undertow
"V" Is for Vengeance
"W" Is for Wasted
"X"

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Review:

"Exceptionally entertaining...an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice." --San Francisco Chronicle on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Millhone is an engaging detective-for-hire...P.I. Kinsey Millhone and her creator...are arguably the best of [the] distaff invaders of the hitherto sacrosanct turf of gumshoes." --The Buffalo News on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Once a fan reads one of Grafton's alphabetically titled detective novels, he or she will not rest until all the others are found." --Los Angeles Herald Examiner on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Millhone is a refreshingly strong and resourceful female private eye." --Library Journal on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Tough but compassionate...There is no one better than Kinsey Millhone." --Best Sellers on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"A woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner." --Newsweek on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Lord, how I like this Kinsey Millhone...The best detective fiction I have read in years." --The New York Times Book Review on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Smart, tough, and thorough...Kinsey Millhone is a pleasure." --The Bloomsbury Review on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Kinsey is one of the most persuasive of the new female operatives...She's refreshingly free of gender clichés. Grafton, who is a very witty writer, has also given her sleuth a nice sense of humor--and a set of Wonder Woman sheets to prove it." --Boston Herald on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"What grandpa used to call a class act." --Stanley Ellin on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Smart, sexual, likable and a very modern operator." --Dorothy Salisbury Davis on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

"Kinsey's got brains and a sense of humor." --Kirkus Reviews on the Mystery Novels of Sue Grafton

Book Description:

The alphabet mysteries continue with another murder case for private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312373120
• ISBN 13: 9780312373122
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352