Kathrine Beck, Author, Katherine Beck, Author, K. K. Beck, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-48346-9
This villain of this light and clever suspense novel by the author, as K.K. Beck, of the Jane da Silva novels (Cold Smoked, etc.) is a cheerful, boundlessly energetic psychopath-next-door, whose house exudes domestic perfection. The Jamisons are a...
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Kathrine Beck, Author, K. K. Beck, Author . Viking $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-03145-0
Suspense novelist Beck (Bad Neighbors) fixes her sleuthing tendencies on the famously odd writer Opal Whiteley (1897–1992) and the oft-contested story of her life. In the 1920s, Whiteley, then a young woman, was a national celebrity for the...
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K. K. Beck, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5715-9
In another late 1920s detective romp, Beck provides a welcome return for college student and amateur sleuth Iris Cooper ( Murder in a Mummy Case ). While visiting Hawaii and staying at the new Royal Hawaiian Hotel with her Aunt Hermione, Iris is...
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K. K. Beck, Author Walker & Company $17.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5729-6
Beautiful professor Rebecca Kendall has been stalked for 15 years by Benjamin Knapp, a man suffering from an ``obsessive love'' syndrome called erotomania. Rebecca is resigned to his periodic reappearances in her life, keeping him away through...
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K. K. Beck, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-89296-479-6
Beck's ( Death in a Deck Chair ) newest mystery offers a neat twist as a premise for what could turn out to be a delightful series. In her late 30s and tired of eking out an existence in Europe, expatriate widow Jane Silva is offered a substantial...
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K. K. Beck, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-89296-480-2
Jane da Silva, ``a kind of nonprofit detective'' in Seattle, returns in a delightful follow-up to A Hopeless Case . In order to inherit her Uncle Harold's money, now held by the trustees of his Foundation for Righting Wrongs, Jane has to solve...
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K. K. Beck, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-89296-536-6
In a rambling adventure, following Amateur Night , Jane da Silva, Beck's Seattle sleuth who must investigate hopeless cases in order to inherit her eccentric uncle's fortune, searches for a missing woman, a recent winner of $20,000 on TV's Jeopardy!
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K. K. Beck, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-89296-537-3
As readers familiar with her first three appearances know, Seattle's Jane da Silva (A Hopeless Case) is the beneficiary of a loopy trust: she gets money from her uncle's estate as long as she solves crimes for people who can't afford to hire a PI....
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K. K. Beck, Author Mysterious Press $19.5 (227p) ISBN 978-0-89296-642-4
The author of the Jane DaSilva mysteries (Cold Smoked, 1995) enters a new milieu with this comic tale of a beleaguered classical radio station in Seattle. A dinosaur in the jungle of popular culture, station KLEG was established by a local arts...
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K. K. Beck, Author Mysterious Press $21.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-89296-670-7
Beck rightly dedicates this zany parody of 1920s exotic adventure fiction to Sax Rohmer, E. Phillip Oppenheim, the Baroness Orczy and their ilk, who created the genre. Movie superstar Nadia Wentworth reads The Wrath of Kali-Ra, written decades ago...
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K. K. Beck, Author Five Star (ME) $26.95 (283p) ISBN 978-0-7862-4570-3
From Five Star come story collections by two pros: The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, by K.K. Beck, one of today's leading practitioners in the Agatha Christie tradition and Secrets and Other Stories of Suspense, by bestseller Carolyn Hart,...
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K.K. Beck. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-56474-563-7
A canny sense of humor and timing elevate Beck’s series opener about a naïve Seattle valet-parking attendant’s brush with Russian mafiosi. All Tyler Benson wants to do is complete his undergraduate courses at the University of Washington, collect...
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K. K. Beck, Author, Katherine Marris, Author Mysterious Press $5.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-40350-4
A reluctant Seattle sleuth must solve the murder of an employee at a news clipping service who's been supplementing her income with blackmail. (July)
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