Return to the roaring twenties with Iris Cooper and her Aunt Hermione as they encounter murder in paradise in the novella "Peril Under the Palms". Mirth and mystery are included in this novel and the four other stories that appear here.
Kathrine Kristine Beck Marris (born 1950), known mainly by her pen name of K. K. Beck, is an American novelist. 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.