Kelsey Grammer will tell the story of the murder of his sister, and the healing process that followed, in a new memoir, People magazine reports.
Harper Select will publish Karen: A Brother Remembers on May 6, 2025. The press describes the book as “a moving tribute to a life cut tragically short, a testament to the enduring bond between siblings, and a message of hope at a time when we need it the most.”
Grammer, known for his role as the psychiatrist Frasier Crane in the television series Cheers and Frasier, was 20 years old when his sister Karen was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she worked at a Red Lobster restaurant. Freddie Glenn and Michael Corbett were convicted of the murder.
Grammer told People that his memoir is “not a Grief book. It is a Life book, a celebration of Karen’s life.”
“I wanted to tell Karen’s story and at the same time include a bit about my life, our life together and the love we shared," he said. "It is [an] unflinching account, raw and punctuated with horror. The words spilled from my mind to my fingers, and into the pages of this book. It poured from days long past, fresh and alive. Fifty years hence, I learned that love, that our love, is forever.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
