Ann Parker

Ann Parker’s award-winning Silver Rush mystery series features saloon-owner Inez Stannert in the 1880s silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. The series includes SILVER LIES, IRON TIES, LEADEN SKIES, MERCURY’S RISE, and WHAT GOLD BUYS. The sixth in the series, A DYING NOTE, brings Inez to 1881 San Francisco, California. In the seventh, MORTAL MUSIC, Inez must deal with a demanding diva and dastardly doings (including murder) in San Francisco's opera world.\n\nAnn’s ancestors include a Leadville blacksmith, a Colorado School of Mines professor, and a gandy dancer. Ann and her family live in the San Francisco Bay Area (although she’d really really love to move to Colorado), where she slings scientific and corporate verbiage by day to pay the bills and writes historical mysteries at night to satisfy her soul.