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K" is for Killer Hardcover - 1994

by GRAFTON, Sue

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With 600,000 copies in the first hardcover printing, "K" Is for Killeris the eleventh--and best--of Sue Grafton's novels. Launching into more than a simple mystery, Grafton takes readers deep into the dark heart of murder, where victims rise up to remind us that taking a life is no laughing matter.

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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Laid in is a Christmas card with photo of the author signed "Sue", two postcards with image of the dustwrapper art, one postcard sized card with image of the dustwrapper art and author's signing tour schedule, and a Magic-Grip Jar Opener with K is for Killer blurb on one side.
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  • Title K" is for Killer
  • Author GRAFTON, Sue
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 286
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt and Company, New York
  • Date 1994
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 311900
  • ISBN 9780805019360 / 0805019367
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.16 x 1.1 in (23.77 x 15.65 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, California
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94001242
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the rear cover

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.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/1994, Page 1302
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/1994, Page 249
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/01/1994, Page 82
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/07/1994, Page 56
  • School Library Journal, 07/01/1994, Page 128

About the author

#1 New York Times 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.

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