Writer |
Who |
Where |
When |
How Much |
Why |
Kaaberbol, Lene and Agnete Friis |
Nina Borg |
Denmark and Lithuania |
Present |
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Nina is Red Cross nurse. When a friend asks to her do a favor and pick up a suitcase from a locker in the train station, Nina finds a 3-year-old boy, alive but heavily sedated, inside the suitcase. Almost immediately after, Nina sees a scary-looking man pounding on the locker and screaming that something he wanted wasn't in the locker. She realizes the boy may be in danger and hides him while she searches to find his family and the reason he was in a suitcase. |
Kahn, Sharon |
Ruby Rothman |
Eternal, TX |
present |
|
Ruby is the widow of a rabbi, and she runs a deli. Funny |
Kallen, Lucille |
Maggie Rome |
Sloan's Ford, CT |
1980s |
|
Maggie is reporter |
Kaminsky, Stuart |
Abe Lieberman |
Chicago, IL |
Present |
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Kaminsky, Stuart |
Lew Fonesca |
Sarasota, FL |
Present |
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Kaminsky, Stuart |
Toby Peters |
Hollywood, CA |
1930s - 1940s |
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Kandel, Susan |
Cece Caruso |
Los Angeles, CA |
Present |
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Cece writes biographies of mystery authors |
Karp, Larry |
Thomas Purdue |
New York NY |
Present |
|
Thomas is neurologist and music box collector |
Kava, Alex |
Maggie O'Dell |
Connecticut |
Present |
|
Maggie is FBI profiler |
Kaye, Marvin |
Gene |
New York NY and Nashville, TN |
Present |
|
Gene works in country music industry |
Kearsley, Susanna |
Verity Grey |
Scotland |
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Keating, H. R. F. |
Inspector Ghote |
India and Los Angeles, CA |
Present |
|
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Kellerman, Faye |
Peter Decker and Rena Lazarus |
Los Angeles, CA |
Present |
|
GG |
Kellerman, Jonathan |
Alex Delaware |
Los Angeles, CA |
Present |
|
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Kellerman, Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman |
Clay Edison, Deputy Coroner, Alameda County, CA |
Berkeley, Half Moon Bay, and rural Alameda County, CA |
Present |
|
Excellent |
Kells, Claire |
Felicity Harland, Special Agent, Investigative Services Branch (ISB), U.S. Forest Service and Ferdinand Huxley (Hux), Park Ranger |
Sequoia National Park, CA |
Present |
|
Sequoia Park's Chief Ranger calls in ISB when he finds an abandoned campsite that appears to have something strange. The campsite was set up by a company that provides "no effort", luxury camping, and the deserted site doesn't look normal. Felicity and Hux search and find one of the campers in a nearby lake, with some evidence that she might have been pushed from an overhanging cliff. Excellent. |
Kelly, Julia |
Evelyn Redfern and David Poole |
London, UK |
1940 |
|
Evelyn is working at a boring job at a near-to-London munitions factory when a friend of Evelyn's parents offers her a job as a typist at a security agency, whose office is located under Whitehall. There she works with Security Agent Davud Poole, and they discover who is leaking secret information to the Germans, and they also solve the murder of one of the agency's typists. |
Kemelman, Harry |
David Small |
Bernard's Crossing, MA |
Present |
|
David is rabbi |
Kennedy, Mary |
Maggie Walsh |
Cyprus Grove, FL |
Present |
|
Maggie is a psychologist who hosts a radio talk show, "On the Couch with Maggie Walsh", and solves mysteries. |
Kerr, Philip |
Bernhard Gunther |
Berlin, Germany |
1936 |
|
extremely well-written but depressing |
Khan, Ausma Zehanat |
Inaya Rahman, Denver PD Community Response Unit (CRU), Leutenant Waqas Seif, manager of DPD CRU, Catalina Hernandez, DPD CRU, and Areesha Adams, community organizer |
Blackwater Falls, CO (suburb south of Denver) |
Present |
|
Inaya is daughter of Afgan and Pakistani immigrants, and Waqas is son of Iranian and Palestinian immigrants. The DPD CRU is assigned to the case when Razan Elkader, a teen-aged girl who escaped with her family from Syria, is found murdered. Plot involves Evangelical mega-church, whose minister frequently preaches about "infidels living among us" and who sponsor a motorcycle gang named The Disciples. Plot also involves aerospace company. |
Khavari, Kate |
Saffron Everleigh, Alexander Ashton, and Michael Lee, M.D. |
London, UK |
1923 |
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At a faculty party, Dr Henry's wife is poisoned, and Saffron's major professor and mentor, Dr, Maxwell, is arrested because many people heard Dr. Maxwell threaten Dr. Henry when he found that Henry was not including him in an upcoming Amazon expedition--because Maxwell was "too old". Saffron has strong bonds to Dr. Maxwell because he helped her when other faculty were unwelcoming to a woman student. Saffron also knows Dr. Maxwell would never harm anyone so she enlists the help of Alexander, and they discover who dunnit. |
Kienzle, William X. |
Fr. Robert Koesler |
Detroit, MI |
Present |
|
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Kihn, Greg |
Beau Young |
Los Angeles, CA |
Present |
|
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Kijewski, Karen |
Kat Colorado |
Sacramento, CA |
Present |
|
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Kimberley, Alice |
Penelope Thornton-McClure and Jack Shepherd |
Quindicott, RI |
Present |
|
Penelope owns bookstore and Jack is ghost of 1940's PI killed in bookstore; author also writes as Cleo Coyle |
Kincaid, M. G. |
Seth Mornay |
Scotland |
Present |
|
|
King, Laurie R. |
Raquel Laing |
San Francisco and San Mateo County, CA |
Present |
|
Raquel is San Francisco PD officer; her SFPD mentor asks her to work with San Mateo County on a newly-discovered possible victim of the Highwayman murderer. When a statue in the gardens at the Gardiner estate in San Mateo County (very likely really Filoli) slipped off its base, a body was discovered buried under the statue. Aspects of the body match the Highwayman's victims. Michael Johnston, the man the SFPD believes is the Highwayman murderer, is terminally ill with cancer in a San Jose hospital. Raquel discovers the identity of the victim and the true murderer. |
King, Laurie R. |
Kate Martinelli |
San Francisco, CA |
Present |
|
|
King, Larie R. |
Mary Russell |
England, Israel, India, San Francisco, CA |
early 1900s |
|
Mary is Mrs. Sherlock Holmes |
Kingsbury, Kate |
Lady Elizabeth Hartley Compton |
England |
1940s |
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Kittredge, Mary |
Charlotte Kent |
Pelican Rock, CA |
Present |
|
Charlotte is author of how-to books |
Kneif, Charles |
John Caine |
Hawaii and San Diego, CA |
Present |
|
well written but too violent |
Knight, Bernard |
John de Wolfe |
Westminster, London, Winchester, Exeter, England |
1196 |
|
John is Coronor of the Verge for Richard the Lionheart. Excellent description of life in Norman England, but text needed editing. I lose interest every time I have to come out of the story to work out a pronoun's reference noun. |
Knight, Kathryn Laskey |
Callista Jacobs |
Boston, MA |
Present |
|
Callista is children's book illustrator |
Kozak, Harley Jane |
Wollstonecraft (Wollie) Shelley |
Los Angeles, CA |
Present |
|
Wollie is greeting card designer and part-time actor |
Krich, Rochelle |
Lisa Brockman |
Los Angeles, CA |
Present |
|
Lisa is MD at fertility clinic |
Krieg, Joyce |
Shauna T. Bogart |
Sacramento, CA |
Present |
|
Shauna is radio talk show host |
Krueger, William Kent |
Cork O'Connor |
Aurora, MN |
Present |
|
Cork is former sheriff and is part Anishnaabe |
Kuhn, Cynthia |
Emma Starrs |
Silvercrest, CO |
Present |
|
Emma and her sister, Lucy, operate Starlit Bookstore. Their aunt, Nora, literature professor at Silvercrest University lives with them. Emma volunteers to help former high school classmate (and giant bitch), Tabitha, with a mystery dinner party, and at the party, Tabitha's husband is found really murdered. Tabitha tries to pin the blame on Emma. |