Mystery Authors K


Writer Who Where When How Much Why
Kaaberbol, Lene and Agnete Friis Nina Borg Denmark and Lithuania Present
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
 
Kaminsky, Stuart Lew Fonesca Sarasota, FL Present
     
 
Kaminsky, Stuart Toby Peters Hollywood, CA 1930s - 1940s
       
 
Kandel, Susan Cece Caruso Los Angeles, CA Present
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  
   
 
Keating, H. R. F. Inspector Ghote India and Los Angeles, CA Present
       
 
Kellerman, Faye Peter Decker and Rena Lazarus Los Angeles, CA Present
         
GG
Kellerman, Jonathan Alex Delaware Los Angeles, CA Present
       
 
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
 
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
       
 
Kihn, Greg Beau Young Los Angeles, CA Present
   
 
Kijewski, Karen Kat Colorado Sacramento, CA Present
       
 
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
       
 
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.