K K Beck Books In Order

Iris Cooper Books In Order

  1. Death in a Deck Chair (1984)
  2. Murder in a Mummy Case (1986)
  3. Peril Under the Palms (1989)

Workplace Mysteries Books In Order

  1. The Body in the Volvo (1987)
  2. The Body in the Cornflakes (1992)

Jane Da Silva Books In Order

  1. A Hopeless Case (1992)
  2. Amateur Night (1993)
  3. Electric City (1994)
  4. Cold Smoked (1995)

Workplace Mystery Books In Order

  1. Tipping the Valet (2015)

Novels

  1. Death of a Prom Queen (1984)
  2. Young Mrs Cavendish and the Kaiser’s Men (1987)
  3. Without a Trace (1988)
  4. Unwanted Attentions (1988)
  5. Bad Neighbors (1996)
  6. We Interrupt This Broadcast (1997)
  7. The Revenge of Kali-Ra (1999)
  8. Fake (2002)
  9. Snitch (2005)

Collections

  1. The Tell-tale Tattoo and Other Stories (2002)

Non fiction

  1. Opal (2003)

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K K Beck Books Overview

Death in a Deck Chair

The first book in the Iris Cooper series

The Body in the Cornflakes

Ted is having a rough time. Just before Galaxy Foods grand reopening, Ginger Jessup, the store’s glamorous TV promoter, and the old owner’s young girlfriend, is found dead in the cereal section. Ted prays the killer is one of the old man’s truly obnoxious relatives, but they’ve all got allibis. As for Ted’s own staff, its seems there’s murder on the shelf.

A Hopeless Case

Back in the United States to claim an inheritance left her by her eccentric Uncle Harold, widowed chanteuse Jane da Silva discovers that her uncle had been part of a secret society dedicated to aiding offbeat causes.

Electric City

Reluctant amateur sleuth Jane da Silva returns to solve the mystery of a mousy researcher who disappears after winning $20,000 on ”Jeopardy!” and turns up dead at the bottom of a cliff after her ugly little blackmailing business is discovered. K. AB.

Bad Neighbors

MysteryLarge Print EditionBecks deft pacing keeps readers furiously turning pages. Publishers WeeklyEvery working mothers fears are realized when Sue, the embodiment of high energy domestic perfection, shows up in Anita and David Jamisons harried lives. As the family struggles through Davids unemployment, Anitas attraction to another man, and the squabbling of their two daughters, Sue wends her way into Davids heart through his bruised ego, and deviously works to win over Anitas youngest daughter. But when her plans remain elusive, her intrusion in the Jamisons lives takes a turn for the violent…

We Interrupt This Broadcast

The author of the acclaimed Jane da Silva series presents a witty mystery set in the discordant, pretentious world of an FM classical radio station. Taking a job with a Seattle station to support herself after her husband leaves her for another woman, Alice Jordan plunges headlong into an entertaining symphony of murder, music and monstrous egos.

The Revenge of Kali-Ra

‘I don’t like it,’ said Raymond Vernon. ‘I sense a strange presence here.’ ‘Steady, old chap,’ said the inspector. ‘I know you’ve had a scare, but it’s all quiet now.’ ‘Too quiet,’ said Raymond Vernon grimly. ‘Kali Ra is here. I know it!’ Suddenly, Nick heard a shattering crash and a woman’s terrified scream. He nearly dropped the book in his hand. He must stop reading these damn Kali Ra thrillers; they were beginning to seem real. But then he realized he had heard an actual scream outside the mansion doors…
Super bankable, way hot movie star Nadia Wentworth has found her dream role: the all powerful, eternally beautiful Kali Ra, Queen of Doom one of pulp fiction’s most famous characters. Even better, no one stands between Nadia owning all the rights to the Kali Ra novels. As far as Nadia’s assistant, Melanie, can tell, Kali Ra’s creator, dissolute 1920’s novelist Valerian Ricardo, left no heirs. So, it seems that no power on earth can stop the return of Kali Ra or prevent Nadia from gaining untold profits and worldwide mega stardom…
That is, until a cast of mysterious characters descend on Nadia’s exotic Beverly Hills mansion putting the level headed Melanie in a scenario weirder than anything even she’s ever seen. Nick Iversen, Valerian’s great great nephew from Minneapolis, wants the truth about his dubious heritage. The writer’s wacked out widow, Lila, hungers to spread the ‘divine power’ of his words and control his new fortune on the earthly plane. Haplessly sleazy lawyer Quentin Smith is out to claim the profits of Kali Ra for his unscrupulous employer. And the mysterious Callie might have a more sinister connection to her Valerian Ricardo’s creation than anyone can guess. Determined to uncover the truth about Ricardo’s legacy, Melanie attempts to untangle a web of events as fiendishly difficult as any Kali Ra herself could devise. But from the moment one of Nadia’s unwanted guests turns up stabbed and dangerous forces including obsessed Kali Ra Internet fans stalk the scented night, Melanie must put her own final cut on this deadly script. Even if she must confront the most terrifying perils of celebrity ego, big studio moviemaking or the unholy powers of Kali Ra herself…

Opal

In 1920, readers across America fell in love with the childhood diary of Opal Whiteley, a young girl from a small logging town in the northwest. The diary, which chronicled Opal’s adventures in the forests of Oregon at the age of seven, was hailed as a revelatory and mystical portrait of a child’s relationship to God and the natural world. It became an overnight sensation, and Opal beautiful, charming, and twenty years old quickly became one of the first celebrities of the day. Though skeptics soon discredited it as a hoax and its author fell out of public view, the diary has since become an enduring classic that has won its place on many school reading lists, and Opal’s story continues to touch the hearts of many devotees. But almost a century later, the true story of the diary and Opal’s identity remain a puzzle. Opal is the story of her legacy and of the various mythical roles she has embodied from a New Age prophet and environmentalist to a mad genius and a long lost princess. Sifting through Opal’s personal papers and letters, Kathrine Beck has for the first time brought to life the full story behind Opal’s elusive and eccentric life. Part biography, part fast paced mystery, Opal combines the quirkiness of The Professor and the Madman with the hypnotic aura of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. With beautiful photos from Opal’s childhood, as well as her striking publicity shots, it is a delightful book for the holidays.

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