Ann Parker Books in Order

In 1879 Leadville, saloon owner Inez Stannert investigates after a prominent assayer is found trampled behind her place. Her search through mines, banks, and Denver parlors exposes greed, secrets, and how dangerous silver fever can be.

Leadville is buzzing over the railroad's arrival and Grant's visit when photographer Susan Carothers is caught in a deadly explosion. Inez must untangle old war grudges, business rivalries, and trouble from her own past.

During Ulysses S. Grant's 1880 tour of Leadville, Inez makes a risky deal meant to secure her independence. Instead, ambition, temptation, and murder close in, and every choice seems to carry a price.

Traveling to Manitou to see her young son, Inez witnesses a man die on the stagecoach after taking medicine. At the resort she digs into miracle cures, medical fraud, and a case that threatens her hard-won freedom.

Back in autumnal Leadville, Inez finds fortune-teller Drina Gizzi murdered, then watches the body vanish. With Drina's daughter Antonia beside her and her husband scheming nearby, she follows a trail of revenge, grave robbing, and buried resentments.

Now in 1881 San Francisco, Inez manages a music store and hopes for a steadier life with her young ward Antonia. That plan unravels when a badly beaten musician turns up dead and old Leadville ties surface again.

This multi-author crime anthology takes on voter suppression from several angles, from present-day cases to historical struggles. Ann Parker's contribution heads to 1870 Wyoming, where a woman fights to cast her ballot.

The second anthology gathers crime stories around the idea that every stolen vote is a crime. Ann Parker's story follows a young homeless woman trying to make her vote count against a system stacked against her.

Christmas in San Francisco brings Inez an unexpected chance when famed vocalist Theia Carrington Drake asks her to accompany several appearances. But threats pile up around the singer, and Inez must stop a killer stalking the opera world.

The third collection widens the series with stories that move from cozy to noir and from history to the near future. Ann Parker's contribution adds a lighter, four-footed spin to the theme of voting rights.

In San Francisco, Inez is drawn into a locked-in mystery when a skeleton and gold coins tumble from a wall in a property she's inspecting. With Antonia at her side, she chases a secret that someone has already killed to keep hidden.

Dressmaker Abigail Summers wakes to the shock of her own death and decides to solve her murder. With psychic Hayley Moon, a skeptical constable, and a band of fellow spirits, she follows clues through Becklesfield's village life.

A death on the campathon committee points Abigail toward a darker plan linked to Becklesfield's 10K fun run. With Hayley and the spirits, she follows old secrets, a buried boy's ghost, and the possibility of a wrongful conviction.

Abigail has already solved one murder, but Becklesfield refuses to stay quiet. When Hayley is arrested and a poisoning strikes a pub quiz, Abigail and her ghostly team must work out how the cases connect.

At the Ottersmill Regatta, Abigail and Hayley investigate the murder of club commodore Leo Spencer. Suspects crowd the marina and nearby gated estates, and a second mystery soon puts Hayley and Tom in real danger.

At Mayor Crimble's Christmas disco, a local politician is murdered under the mistletoe and a strange wreath seems to hold the key. Abigail and Hayley race from holiday festivities to Hawthorne Manor, where a curse warns of more deaths before midnight.

A haunted weekend at the Three Crows Pub brings Abigail a murder in the notorious room six and plenty of ghost hunters with motives. Then a second death in Ridgeway Wood suggests the trouble may reach back to Becklesfield.

Abigail visits the Shillingworth Museum and finds its owner dead among the exhibits. A missing poisonous frog, a funeral at Rookshot Hall, and long-buried identities give the Deadly Detective Agency a crowded case file.

A society wedding in Becklesfield turns grim when two deaths and an attack on a florist point to deeper family secrets. Abigail's team also investigates a canal-side double killing that may have framed their least favorite detective.

A death at the Chiltern Valley Flying Club sends Abigail digging into radio chatter, pilots, and a second body. At the same time, anonymous love letters and a lonely-hearts trail point toward a killer who plans to strike again.