K. K. Beck
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Kathrine Kristine Beck Marris (born 1950), known mainly by her pen name
of K. K. Beck, is an American
novel
ist. She has written over a dozen books, some of which were part of the Iris Cooper novel series and the Jane da Silva novel series.
An early novel of hers, Death of a Prom Queen (1984) was written under the pen name of Marie Oliver.
She wrote a series of other novels, under the name K. K. Beck, such as The Revenge of Kali-Ra in 1999. One of her most recent works, The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories (2002) is a collection of short stories.
She lives in Seattle
, Washington, and was married to the crime-writer Michael Dibdin
, who died in 2007.
Pen name
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of K. K. Beck, is an American
United States
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novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist. She has written over a dozen books, some of which were part of the Iris Cooper novel series and the Jane da Silva novel series.
An early novel of hers, Death of a Prom Queen (1984) was written under the pen name of Marie Oliver.
She wrote a series of other novels, under the name K. K. Beck, such as The Revenge of Kali-Ra in 1999. One of her most recent works, The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories (2002) is a collection of short stories.
She lives in Seattle
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
, Washington, and was married to the crime-writer Michael Dibdin
Michael Dibdin
Michael Dibdin , was a British crime writer.-Life:Dibdin was born in Wolverhampton, the son of a physicist, and was brought up from the age of seven in Lisburn, Northern Ireland where he attended Friends' School...
, who died in 2007.