"K" is for Kiss.... of death, that is! The "K" list of mystery book authors includes sleuths who are private investigators, psychologists, computer experts, ex-sheriffs, and even book publishers, housekeepers, and hotel/inn owners!

I have also included the chronological list of Jan Karon's "feel good" books about life in a small town with people who, despite their many differences, get along with each other. It may take a while for them to come to the conclusion that they care about each other, but rarely do they fail to help their neighbors in times of troubles.

Julie Kaewert    What a wonderful name for a series...."Booklover's" says it all! This series features a publisher in England.

Sharon Kahn   A rabbi's wife, attorney Kahn writes about what she knows.... her series revolves around "Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife," which also happens to be the name of the series, even though Ruby is really the Rabbi's Widow...

Susan Kandel    Kandel (an ex-editor of an art magazine and an ex-teacher of college-level art theory and history) writes the Cece Caruso Mystery Series which has, as its sleuth, an author who writes biographies of mystery writers... dead mystery writers, that is!

Jan Karon  Her Mitford series is very cozy, but isn't a mystery series.

Jon Katz    His mystery series is about an ex-Wall Streeter who becomes a private investigator. Katz has also written several books about dogs, and has an impressive journalism background.

Brian Kavanagh   Kavanagh contacted me and told me about his cozy mystery series featuring an Australian who goes to visit her great aunt in Bath (England) and who ends up inheriting a cottage...

Faye Kellerman    Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker series...

Jonathan Kellerman   Not Cozy... He is a child psychologist who writes a series featuring a child psychologist...

Lee Charles Kelley    Kelley writes the Continuing Adventures of Jack & Jamie Mystery Series, which features a dog trainer/dog kennel owner/ex-NYPD detective. Kelley is a a dog trainer, voice-over actor, songwriter, and of course, author! (His best selling Christmas mystery can be found on the Christmas "K" page.)

Toni L. P. Kelner     Kelner has the Laura Fleming series that features a computer programmer, and she is now finishing up on the first book of a new series which will come out in '07.

Harry Kemelman    Kemelman was a professor of English and had his M. A. from Harvard. He wrote the very successful Rabbi Small series........

Ellen Edwards Kennedy   Kennedy penned her first cozy mystery novel and is currently working on its sequel. Her high school English teacher/sleuth and I have something in common... the annoyance at the use of the word "irregardless!"

Shirley Kennett    Kennett's series features a psychologist who is also a computer specialist, so she is able to profile criminals and recreate their crimes on the computer. And, with Kennett's "real life" background in computer science/applied mathematics, it is no wonder that her heroine (PJ Gray) is so computer-literate!

Rebecca Kent   (aka Kate Kingsbury)  As Kent, we are treated with the Bellehaven House Mystery Series. The Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series and the World War II Manor House Mystery Series are written under the Kingsbury name...

William X. Kienzle   Father Robert Koesler series...

Karen Kijewski   Kijewski, an ex-English teacher, writes the very popular Kat Colorado series.

Nina Killham   The beginning of a series revolving around an author of cookbooks...

Diana Killian    The Poetic Death Mystery series features Grace Hollister, a teacher from the USA who goes to England to fulfill her passion for poets of romance...

Alice Kimberley    aka Cleo Coyle     Both Kimberley and Coyle are pseudonyms for a husband and wife team (Marc Cerasini and Alice Alfonsi) who write cozy mysteries together.  They write the Coffeehouse Mystery series as Coyle,  and the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series as Kimberly.

Laurie R. King   Her very popular series features Mary Russell, a protégé of Sherlock Holmes. King also write a series that features homicide inspector Kate Martinelli.

Peter King    Gourmet detective series, a series that features the author Jack London, and even a series that revolves around an 1870s hansom cab driver!

Kate Kingsbury  (aka Rebecca Kent)  A World War II series, and an Edwardian period series that takes place between 1901 and 1910... Also, writing as Rebecca Kent, the Bellehaven House Mystery Series...

Lisa Kleinholz    A series about an ex-Rolling Stone reporter who becomes a reporter in a small New England town...

Kathryn Lasky Knight   A series involving a children's books illustrator...

Harley Jane Kozak    Kozak's first novel in her Wollie Shelley Mystery series won the very prestigious Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2005. The series features an artist of greeting cards who also has the talent to solve mysteries...

Rochelle Krich   aka Rochelle Majer Krich   Krich has her master's degree in English from U.C.L.A., and like the heroine of one of her cozy mystery series, she is an avid player of mah-jongg. Several of her works are on the Agatha Award pages!

Joyce Krieg   Krieg started out as a newspaper journalist, moved on to radio, then television, back to radio, and then to writing a mystery series about a talk show radio host(ess.)

William Kent Krueger   Not cozy.... I like his Cork O'Connor series a lot.

Mary Kruger   Kruger, a librarian and author, writes two series, one of which is a cozy set in the world of knitting. She also writes historical romance novels as Mary Kingsley.

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