Search Results: Authors starting with K from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2013. 1st ed., fine copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition, due out November, 2013. 368 pages.Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiance, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. It isn't the first time Natasha has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was also murdered, three years earlier in Kiev, and in the same manner, his hands broken. At the same time, someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from the Red Cross center that has been caring for her while her mother, an illegal immigrant, was in jail. Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg has been following Natasha's case for several years now, since Natasha first took refuge at a crisis center where Nina works. Nina, who had tried to help Natasha leave her abusive Danish fiancé more than once, just can't see the young Ukrainian mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1992. 1st edition, July 1992. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. . The 2nd Attorney Rachel Gold mystery. "Chicago attorney Rachel Gold is sent to St. Louis, her old hometown, to see whether she can prove that Stoddard Anderson, managing partner of the local office of pedigreed law firm Abbott & Windsor, was insane when he killed himself--thus providing a bigger payoff for his widow Dottie, who needs every penny. The background questions about Anderson--for instance, why did he quadruple his accident insurance only a few months before he died, and what was he doing for the three days between disappearing from home and slitting his wrists in an airport hotel?--fade when Rachel learns from gallery owner Remy Panzer that Anderson had promised to help smuggle a jewelled golden cast of Montezuma's penis into the country. Aided by the likes of funky law prof Benny Goldberg… Read More

Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 2003. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Comic thriller about a ground breaking discovery that could revolutionize energy markets. "Some authors know how to have fun. R.J. Kaiser is one of them."--Detroit News. Dated and SIGNED by the author on title page plus a SIGNED letter to bookstore owner from the author. 456 pages. Attempting to get his miserable life back on track, Jonas Lamb, seeking to redeem himself in the eyes of his son Patrick and his ex-wife, helps Patrick, a brilliant genetic engineer, find financial backing for a revolutionary new energy source, but instead finds himself immersed in a volatile international conspiracy. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1988. 1st ed. Complete number line. His first novel, an EDGAR AWARD WINNER. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publishers sheet laid in. ""Live behind your own eyes. Scrimmage on your own turf"this is the lesson that college professor-turned-gambler Timothy Waverly has learned from seven years in prison for a crime of passion. After he returns home to Traverse City, Mich., a beautiful woman with an elusive past draws him into a cat-and-mouse game with the tough men pursuing her. Euphemism replaces harsh fact in this world, where gang bosses talk of "inventory control" and "profit margins." Kakonis displays his eye for quality sleaze and ear for crisp dialogue in this debut novel. The two sociopaths who pursue Waverly are genuine originals, both comic and menacing. Fans of Elmore Leonard and Loren D. Estleman will recognize this "slippery splintered world, everything infected, gone wrong." --- Library Journal.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1988. 1st ed. His first novel, an EDGAR AWARD WINNER. A couple of minor stains at page edges else near fine in a fine dust jacket. "Live behind your own eyes. Scrimmage on your own turf"this is the lesson that college professor-turned-gambler Timothy Waverly has learned from seven years in prison for a crime of passion. After he returns home to Traverse City, Mich., a beautiful woman with an elusive past draws him into a cat-and-mouse game with the tough men pursuing her. Euphemism replaces harsh fact in this world, where gang bosses talk of "inventory control" and "profit margins." Kakonis displays his eye for quality sleaze and ear for crisp dialogue in this debut novel. The two sociopaths who pursue Waverly are genuine originals, both comic and menacing. Fans of Elmore Leonard and Loren D. Estleman will recognize this "slippery splintered world, everything infected, gone wrong." -- Library Journal. First… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton & Co., Inc, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Tim Waverly, the hero of Tom Kakonis' acclaimed MICHIGAN ROLL returns and is literally gambling for his life. Set in South Florida. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1984. 1st ed. Light wear at edges else near fine in dust jacket, moderately soiled at rear panel, ink number at rear. C.B. Greenfield arrives on a subtropical island to help his partner Maggie Rome unravel the tangled clues of a murder she has discovered while birdwatching on the well-described setting of Sanibel Island the wildlife refuge. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1986. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. Kallen tops her winning, fast-moving, stylish myteries with the fifth story about brainy, enigmatic C. B. Greenield, whose newspaper, the Sloan's Ford Reporter, keeps him and his right-hand woman, Maggie Rome, fully occupied except when they're sleuthing. Maggie leaves town in a huff when both C. B. and her husband are dazzled by a glamorous visitor from England. A putdown by the lovely Penelope Heath-Morecomb sends Maggie to join an encampment set up by a women's peace group near an Air Force base housing missiles. When hawkish Alice Dakin arives to support a counter-demonstration, she's warmly welcomed by the locals who earn their living at the base and who applaud her as the author of Why God Gave Us the Bomb. Dakin vanishes, and Maggie fears a violent confrontation, for she suspects members of the peace group have done away with her. She and C. B., newly… Read More

Delacorte, 1994. The Diaries of the Famaily Dracula. ARC. First Edition. PAPER. Fine/Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

N.Y.: Forge, 2006. First edition, December 2006, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Life's a sneaky mistress, though, and has a way of suckering you into caring. Lew's found that he's really good at helping people get out of bad situations. That he matters. And Lew's therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him that unless he's willing to leave the planet, it's about time that he goes back to Chicago and closes the door to the past so that he can finally get on with the rest of his life. Lew… Read More

N.Y.: Forge, 2004. First Edition, Deceber 2004, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Edgar-winner Kaminsky's eighth Abe Lieberman mystery (after 2002's Not Quite Kosher) gets off to a dramatic start. After a prologue in which a gunman confronts a young Lieberman in the middle of a morning prayer service in 1969, the action flashes forward 33 years to find the sardonic 60-something Chicago cop handcuffed to the same gunman, a professional assassin facing extradition back to the Windy City. When an unassuming elderly janitor shocks the veteran lawman by gunning down the assassin in the airport, Lieberman takes on the thankless task of identifying the person who ordered the hit. As that inquiry proceeds, Lieberman tries to defuse a Latin-Asian gang war. Meanwhile, Lieberman's Irish partner, Bill Hanrahan, juggles a rape case and a stalker who's targeting his pregnant wife..." -- PW. 1st Edition.… Read More

N.Y.: Forge, 2005. First Edition, June 2005, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up and up. Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience...and another that may break his heart. The first involves an elderly woman who swears she's witnessed a murder in her old age home despite the fact that everyone she tells her story to: her family, the hospital staff, and finally the cops all tell her that it just couldn't have happened. The other has Lew trying to find out the identity of a hit and run driver who killed a 14 year old boy. This task dredges up old memories and a lot of pain, for Lew fled Chicago years ago, after a drunk driver killed his beloved wife. As… Read More

N.Y.: Forge, 2003. First Edition, December 2003, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Lew Fonesca is a guy just trying to get along. When his wife died in a senseless auto wreck, he got up and left his old life--and when his car gave out in sunny Sarasota, Florida, he stayed. He takes small process-serving gigs and various odd jobs helping people out, and he tries, although maybe not as hard as he should, to fix the gaping hole in his heart. But for a man who just wants to ease through life without any complications, Lew has a pretty full plate. The shrink that Lew's been seeing for more than a year wants him to finally dump all the grief that he's carrying around so he can have more than a half-life. And Sally, the pretty single mom and social worker who has helped Lew in the past, wants to deepen their friendship. On top of that, a local minister asks him to find a town council member who has gone missing… Read More

NY, NY: St. Martins, 1977. 1st ed. 2nd Toby Peters. light soiling at page edges, else about fine in lightly soiled dust jacket, unclipped, $7.95 intact, one closed tear at front and rear, tiny chip out at front, minor rubbing. Kaminsky has garnered both The GRAND MASTER AWARD from Mystery Writers of America, 2006 and THE EYE LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD, 2007. Kaminsky reunites us with his flawed, but interesting detective, Toby Peters. This novel again combines real persons from our storied Hollywood past, with fascinating characters of Kaminsky's imagination. The continued exploration of Peters make-up makes for an interesting backdrop to the storyline. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Armchair Detective Library, 1991. 1st hardcover edition. A fine, unread copy in slipcase. ONE of 100 NUMBERED COPIES [this being #98], SIGNED by Kaminsky, bound in burgundy cloth without dust wrapper as issued in matching burgundy slipcase, gilt stamping to front board and spine, pencil sketch of the author by Carolyn Hartman at front board, a very fine unread copy. A new introduction by Kaminsky. The 1st Rostnikov title. Set in Moscow, the debut Ratnikov novel demonstrates how Kaminsky captures the flavor of that city. This powerful sense of time and place is doubly remarkable because Kaminsky had never been to Russia before he wrote the book. His depictions of Rostnikov coping with a corrupt Moscow police force, underlying KGB pressures, and the overall inefficiencies of working in the then Soviet Union are dead-on. Death of a Dissident shows a master storyteller at his finest. . Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Limited Edition.

New York, U.S.A.: St Martins Press, 1978. 1st. Ed. fine in near fine dust jacket showing very light wear. Kaminsky has garnered both The GRAND MASTER AWARD from Mystery Writers of America, 2006 and THE EYE LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD, 2007. Kaminsky reunites us with his flawed, but interesting detective, Toby Peters. This novel again combines real persons from our storied Hollywood past, with fascinating characters of Kaminsky's imagination. The continued exploration of Peters make-up makes for an interesting backdrop to the storyline. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Eugene: OR: Mystery Scene Press - Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. 1st ed. The book is Author's Choice Monthly #3 from Mystery Scene Press, an imprint of Pulphouse Publishing. Bound in full tan leather with lettering stamped in gilt. A very fine, as new copy, unread, issued without dust jacket (now housed in homemade acetate dust wrapper). LIMITED EDITION, #45 of 50 numbered copies, SIGNED by Kaminsky. Introduction by Kaminsky. Includes stories about Toby Peters, and his brother Phil; Bollo and Pete Breedlove.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

N.Y.: Fawcett, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Kaminsky at title page. Crime in post-communist Russia has only gotten worse: rubles are scarce, blood, plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, new-found democracy has unleashed the desperation that pushes people over the edge, and has emboldened those already on the path to hell. A trio of nasty cases confirms their worst fears. Deputy Inspector Sasha Tkach must find the murderous thieves who have terrorized an impoverished neighborhood. His blood-stained quarry turns out to be a gang of brothers, aged seven, nine, and eleven years old. Policewoman Elena Timofeyeva joins the tax police in a raid on a house filled with Czarist treasures, worth billions of rubles. The next day every last relic and work of art has disappeared without a trace. And relentless Inspector Emil Karpo will… Read More

U.S.A.: Forge, 1999. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Start of a new Kaminsky series featuring Lew Fonesca, set in Florida. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.