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Summary: A mixed outing for Kinsey
Review: Kinsey Millhone is hired to investigate the death of Lorna Kepler, a young woman who worked by day as a secretary in the local water works, but by night doubled as a high class call girl and occasional porn performer.
This is an unusually dark outing for Kinsey - set mostly at night with Kinsey moving among seedy types associated with prostitution, organized crime, and pornography. With a strain of noir mixed with corrupt water politics, there are reminders here of 'Chinatown'.
Fans of Grafton will generally get what they come for here: as always, the characters are strong and the writing excellent. Lorna is dead before the story begins, but is still rather memorable, described through the people who knew her and Kinsey's investigation. Her family is also interesting: not just stereotyped victims but complex characters struggling with the events, including siblings who were jealous of Lorna's beauty and ambition and aren't entirely devastated by her death. (The side characters that Grafton has built up around Kinsey are largely left out of this story.) The mystery, however, isn't handled very well: as expected, we ultimately learn who killed Lorna, but never really understand why.
Overall, this is better than 'J', the weakest yet of Grafton's mysteries, but not up to her best.
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Summary: Huh?
Review: Lorna Kepler has been dead for 10 months and the police have not come up with any answers as to why that will satisfy her mother Janice. There is no proof of murder, but also there's no other evidence as to how she died. Janice goes to Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone to find out what really happened to her daughter. As Kinsey probes into Lorna's past, she finds out that she was involved in a lot of unsavory activities. She also suffered from some health problems that might have contributed to her death. Kinsey places all of Lorna's associates and friends on her list of suspects and her investigation takes her into some pretty seedy places and situations. The reader remains as puzzled as Kinsey as to who the actual perpetrator is. When the killer's identity is revealed there are a few interesting plot twists and Kinsey begins to wonder what true justice is. Also all of the loose ends are not tied up neatly as in most of the Kinsey Millhone books, and some questions remain, even after the last page. This is an interesting addition to Sue Grafton's widely-read series.
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Summary: Re-opening a murder case
Review: Lorna Kepler has been dead for 10 months and the police have not come up with any answers as to why that will satisfy her mother Janice. There is no proof of murder, but also there's no other evidence as to how she died. Janice goes to Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone to find out what really happened to her daughter. As Kinsey probes into Lorna's past, she finds out that she was involved in a lot of unsavory activities. She also suffered from some health problems that might have contributed to her death. Kinsey places all of Lorna's associates and friends on her list of suspects and her investigation takes her into some pretty seedy places and situations. The reader remains as puzzled as Kinsey as to who the actual perpetrator is. When the killer's identity is revealed there are a few interesting plot twists and Kinsey begins to wonder what true justice is. Also all of the loose ends are not tied up neatly as in most of the Kinsey Millhone books, and some questions remain, even after the last page. This is an interesting addition to Sue Grafton's widely-read series.
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Summary: A seedy underworld and sheer greed
Review: Lorna Kepler was found dead in cottage - probably murdered, but this cannot be easily established as it was weeks before her body was discovered and most evidence had been destroyed by then, decomposed. Janice, Lorna's mother comes to Kinsey Millhone looking for answers.At first glance Lorna seems to be an ordinary sort of girl, early 20's, had a job at the Water Treatment plant - but then Janice pulls out a tape which she has been sent - it seems Lorna led a darker life for the tape is a pornographic and there is Lorna in it, large as life. Not only that, it seems that for someone who worked just 20 hours a week in a clerical job she had amassed quite a fortune, half a million dollars no less. Janice is convinced her daughter didn't die of natural causes, and now she wants to find out. And who sent her the video? and why? It seems Lorna liked living on the edge - she was a high-priced call-girl and Kinsey must start her investigations in the seamy world of adult movies, and with Lorna's friend Danielle, another prostitute. Kinsey has to sift through the evidence, the two older sisters who clearly didn't like Lorna much; there is Lorna's landlord and his jealous wife; perhaps someone who made the pornographic film; or even one of Lorna's clients. The evidence constantly conflicts and Kinsey must sift through the evidence and alibis to find out just what happened to Lorna and why. Behind all this is there seems to be a darker element lurking, the hint of something underworld. Kinsey is definitely my favourite female detective, she makes addictive reading.
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Summary: Feeling paralyzed
Review: Much to my surprise, Sue Grafton leaves the ending to "K is for Killer" open for questions. In the end, Kinsey is attacked with a stun gun that leaves her temporarily paralyzed. The reader tends to feel the same way when finding out that, as she has regained her mobility, the killer has "left the building" with the mobster-type crew introduced earlier in the novel and is never seen or heard from again. This is not your typical Sue Grafton ending, but the reader does get the sense that justice prevailed in the end. Overall the book was typical Sue Grafton style. Kinsey is up to "old fashioned" detective work trying to unwind the mystery of the death of Lorna Kepler. Lorna has many secrets in her life that Kinsey unravels. Her adventures do not seem to be too dramatic, but the job gets done, nonetheless. Good book overall.
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Summary: Feeling paralyzed
Review: Much to my surprise, Sue Grafton leaves the ending to "K is for Killer" open for questions. In the end, Kinsey is attacked with a stun gun that leaves her temporarily paralyzed. The reader tends to feel the same way when finding out that, as she has regained her mobility, the killer has "left the building" with the mobster-type crew introduced earlier in the novel and is never seen or heard from again. This is not your typical Sue Grafton ending, but the reader does get the sense that justice prevailed in the end. Overall the book was typical Sue Grafton style. Kinsey is up to "old fashioned" detective work trying to unwind the mystery of the death of Lorna Kepler. Lorna has many secrets in her life that Kinsey unravels. Her adventures do not seem to be too dramatic, but the job gets done, nonetheless. Good book overall.
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Summary: k is for killer : opinion by Troy Marcial
Review: Sue Grafton is a great author that has an experienced career in writing best-selling novels. I enjoyed her book, K is for Killer, in many different ways. All of her books are about the same character and settings which makes he books enjoyable. The suspence in her books never lets me put the book down. I enjoyed her book so much, I did a book review of it in my Literature class at Coachman Middle School in Clearwater, Florida. I am currently attending 8th grade in which the class I did the report in, almost everone wanted to read it. I plan to read other books by Sue Grafton alot more.
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Summary: Grafton's classy writing saves the day.
Review: Sue Grafton knows how to put words together beautifully. Her trouble is that her complicated plots are often implausable and confusing to follow. Worse, is the number of characters that populate her books. In this one I counted 22 characters (and there were many more to come) by page 63. I kept turning back pages to sort out identities. .She needs a tougher editor.
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Summary: The ending was filled with holes and completely unsatisfying
Review: The book developed the mystery quite well. But when I read the epilogue, I thought some pages might have been torn out. Nothing was resolved, and the reader doesn't know what happened, why, or if it did. I reread the last chapter to see if I had missed things, but I didn't.
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Summary: My book is about a mystery.
Review: The book I read, K is for Killer, is written by Sue Grafton. This book is a mystery and is very descriptive. Sue Grafton is great about details and good about getting her point across to the reader. This book discusses homicide and malice. K is for Killer is about two co-workers that have differences between each other. One character tries to kill the other, but he lives and is seeking revenge. This is a very good book and I would refer it to anyone who likes mysteries and enjoys a lot of discription.
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