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ANN PARKER is the author of the award-winning Silver Rush historical mystery series set in the 1880s, featuring music store owner and nineteenth-century angel investor Inez Stannert. A science writer by day, Ann lives in the San Francisco Bay area and is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Women Writing the West.
""Silver Lies is a tale of greed, lust and deception set in Leadville in its heyday, when men - and not a few women - stopped at nothing, not even murder, to strike it rich. Ann Parker gets is just right, and the result is a terrific debut novel."" * <B>Margaret Coel, award-winning author of <I>The Shadow Dancer</I></B> * ""Parker...sum[s] up in a few sharp sentences the tawdry power of a frontier boomtown like Leadville, where a sudden surge in silver could burnish everyone's dreams. ...her first novel... combines a kind of gritty grandeur with a knowing wisdom about the way the present shapes our perceptions of the past."" * <B><I>The Chicago Tribune</I></B> * ""Drawing on historic facts and figures of 1870s Colorado, Parker tells a gripping tale of love, greed and murder in the Old West, with a cast of convincing, larger-than-life characters, including a brief appearance from Bat Masterson himself. Inez is a woman well ahead of her time and a welcome addition to the genre, as is Parker, who has left enough loose ends to beckon readers to the next Leadville mystery."" (starred review) * <B><I>Publishers Weekly</I></B> *
