K Is for Killer - (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries) by Sue Grafton (Paperback)

About the Book

Now available to a new generation of readers, this classic Kinsey Millhone mystery finds Kinsey taken into the heart of murder, where the victims rise up as a reminder that the taking of a life is no laughing matter.

Book Synopsis

The New York Times #1 Bestselling Series

The award-winning author's knockout series introduced detective Kinsey Millhone--and a hot new attitude--to crime fiction...

"Exceptionally entertaining...an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice."--San Francisco Chronicle

K IS FOR KNOCK
Janice Kepler is on the way home from the support group she joined after the death of her beloved daughter, Lorna. When she sees a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she believes it's a sign...and decides to knock on the door.

K IS FOR KEEP ON
Janice has waited long enough for Lorna's case to pick up steam, and she is relieved when Kinsey Millhone agrees to finish the work authorities left undone. Ten months before, local police had suspected homicide, but never could find a suspect--or a motive. The trail went cold. And Lorna's death remained a mystery...

K IS FOR KILLER
Now Kinsey is about to be pulled into a netherworld of unavenged murder and damaged survivors...where sometimes it takes a deal with the devil to survive.

From the Back Cover

'K' is for Kinsey in her "most ambitious" ("The Wall Street Journal") adventure from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Sue Grafton

K is for KINSHIP...

Janice Kepler is on the way home from the support group she joined after the death of her beloved daughter, Lorna. When she sees a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she believes it's a sign...and decides to knock on the door.

K is for KINETIC...

Janice has waited long enough for Lorna's case to pick up steam, and she is relieved when Kinsey Millhone agrees to finish the work authorities left undone. Ten months before, local police had suspected homicide, but never could find a suspect--or a motive. The trail went cold. And Lorna's death remained a mystery...

"K is for Killer"

Now Kinsey is about to be pulled into a netherworld of unavenged murder and damaged survivors...where sometimes it takes a deal with the devil to survive.

"Impressive, fascinating...Smart, funny Kinsey takes a stroll on the dark side in [this] intriguingly offbeat mystery."--"The New York Times Book Review"

Review Quotes

"Exceptionally entertaining...an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"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

"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

"Millhone is a refreshingly strong and resourceful female private eye."
--Library Journal

"Tough but compassionate...There is no one better than Kinsey Millhone."
--Best Sellers

"A woman we feel we know, a tough cookie with a soft center, a gregarious loner."
--Newsweek

"Lord, how I like this Kinsey Millhone...The best detective fiction I have read in years."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Smart, tough, and thorough...Kinsey Millhone is a pleasure."
--The Bloomsbury Review

"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

"What grandpa used to call a class act."
--Stanley Ellin, author of the John Milano Series

"Smart, sexual, likable and a very modern operator."
--Dorothy Salisbury Davis, author of the Mrs. Norris Series

"Kinsey's got brains and a sense of humor."
--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

The New York Times #1 bestselling author Sue Grafton (1940-2017) entered the mystery field in 1982 with the publication of 'A' Is for Alibi, which introduced female hard-boiled private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, operating out of the fictional town of Santa Teresa, (aka Santa Barbara) California, and launched the bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries. In addition to her books, she'd published several Kinsey Millhone short stories, and with her husband, Steven Humphrey, wrote numerous movies for television, including "A Killer in the Family" (starring Robert Mitchum), "Love on the Run" (starring Alec Baldwin and Stephanie Zimbalist) and two Agatha Christie adaptations, "Sparkling Cyanide" and "Caribbean Mystery," which starred Helen Hayes. Grafton is published in 28 countries and in 26 languages.