A Reason to Kill by Eve Zaremba (All Editions)

Average, 3 stars

Lots of 18-year-olds disappear but in the case of Martin Millwell, a routine missing person case turns into a nightmare. Helen Keremos is hired by Martin’s father to find the boy but gets no cooperation from Martin’s mother, her lover or his friends. Why the coverup? Takes Keremos, a lesbian detective, to figure it out and solve the case. — “Eve Zaremba’s first mystery surely represents one of the more unusual experiments with the female hard-boiled private-eye. First of all her hero, Helen Keremos is a Canadian, second she is a lesbian…

The plot…has several twists to deliver before it’s unusual conclusion-one that turns the classic reenactment of the crime into a exercise in collective decision making…The politics of Zaremba’s novel, sexual and otherwise, is clearly recognizable as part of the Seventies.”

—1001 Midnights, The Aficionado’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction

Genre: Canadian Eh; Mystery

Publication History

A Reason to Kill by Eve Zaremba, 1978 Paperjacks mass market paperback
ISBN0770100686
SeriesHelen Keremos Mystery
Copyright Date1978
Publication Date1978
PublisherPaperjacks
FormatMass Market Paperback
No. of Pages186
LanguageEnglish
RatingAverage
A Reason to Kill by Eve Zaremba, 1990 Second Story Press trade paperback
ISBN0921299087
SeriesHelen Keremos Mystery
Copyright Date1990
Publication DateJuly 1, 1990
PublisherSecond Story Press
FormatTrade Paperback
No. of Pages168
LanguageEnglish
RatingAverage