About Kari Kilgore



Kari Kilgore on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain

Kari Kilgore finished her first published novel Until Death in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where a rather famous creepy tale about a hotel sparked into life. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction.

Until Death was on the Bram Stoker Award’s Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in a First Novel in 2016.

Her mystery tale What Breaks a Man was listed under Other Distinguished Stories in the 2021 edition of The Best American Mystery and Suspense.
Kari Kilgore and Zortea, The Magic Cat of the HIdden Springs Inn and Spa

Her professional short story sales include Fiction River, WMG Publishing's Holiday Spectaculars, and Sylvia Magazine. Her writing is regularly featured in Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Magazine and in the Uncollected Anthology.

Kari writes fantasy, mystery, romance, contemporary fiction, science fiction, and everything in between, and she’s happiest when she surprises herself. She lives with her fabulous author husband Jason A. Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about.

Kari Kilgore and Pebbles the Pibble, caught mid-yawn

Check out Kari's novels, novellas, collections, anthologies with Jason A. Adams, and short stories!

The Confidential Adventure Club

Want more fiction from Kari, including stories, discounts, and box sets not available anywhere else? Want to learn more about locations, research, and other cool things that inspired these stories and beyond? All that, adorable pet photos, and a free short story when you join, too?

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