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.
Kelly, Lee and Jennifer Thorne	Lila and Tess Ford	New York, NY, Paris, France, Egypt	1907		Lila and Tess grew up in an upper-class New York family, but their father became an archaeologist and has run through the family's money with his expeditions to Eqypt. Lila and her grandmother plot to restore the family's fortunes by marrying Lila to William Hendricks, son of a wealthy and socially-prominant family. However, on the night of Lila's society debut ball, William, his father, and some of his father's goons kidnap Tess--mistaking Tess for Lila--because they believe Lila has the know-how to translate scrolls that give the location of the Serpent's Crown. (The Serpent's Crown is an Egyptian antiquity that the Hendricks and their cabal, Fraternitis de Nodum, believe will give them the power to take political control of Eqypt.) The same evening Lila runs out into the back garden to have a moment to cool down when her father comes out of the bushes and says "Lila, you have to come with me NOW!". Lila does, and she ends up on a ship to Cairo with her father and Alex d'Auteuil, her father's field assistant. Lila's father has abducted her because he knows about the Fraterniis plot, and he wants to keep her safe. The Fraternitis take Tess to Paris and to Cairo and set her to translating the scrolls. Eventually, Tess escapes from the Fraternitis, and she and Lila are reunited in Cairo. Lila and Alex have fallen in love, and Tess has fallen in love with William Hendricks, who has left his father and the Fraternitis. Lila, Tess, Alex, and William find a map to the actual location of the Serpent's Crown, and they head to the location,and they do find the Serpent's Crown, but the Fraternitis have also gotten the location and show up. William helps Lila, Tess, and Alex excape with the Serpent's Crown, and the Fraternitis get into a fight and kill each other. Lila and Tess and their father give the Serpent's Crown to an Egyptian gevernment offidial, General Sami and head back to New York, where Lila and Alex plan their wedding. The story resembled the movie, "Raider's of the Lost Ark", with the characters going from one crisis to another--including cobras, and although it was well written, it wasn't my kind of mystery fiction.
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.