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Silver Rush #1
Silver Lies
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They all came to Leadville with the same Get in. Get rich. Get out. As 1879 draws to a close, this Rocky Mountain boomtown has infected the world with silver fever. It's not much different than the dot.com mania or the corporate scams that heat up over a century later. Unfortunately for Joe Rose, a precious-metals assayer, death stakes its own claim. Joe's body is found trampled into the muck behind Inez Stannert's saloon. Inez already had much more to deal with than pouring shots of Taos Lightning and cleaning up a corpse. A lady educated on the East Coast, she has a past that doesn't bear close scrutiny, including her elopement with a gambling man who has recently disappeared. Most townsfolk, including Inez's business partner, Abe Jackson, dismiss Joe's death as an accident. Death, after all, is no stranger in Leadville. But Inez Why was this loving husband and father carrying a brass token good for "one free screw" at the parlor house of Denver madam Mattie Silks? When Joe's widow Emma asks Inez to settle Joe's affairs, almost against her will, Inez uncovers skewed assays, bogus greenbacks, and blackmail. Lies and secrets run deep in Colorado, secrets more likely to lead to a hanging than to today's congressional hearings or country-club prisons for the crooked and the greedy. Then again, maybe Joe's murder was purely personal.... Silver Rush Silver Lies (Book 1) Iron Ties (Book 2) Leaden Skies (Book 3) Mercury's Rise (Book 4) What Gold Buys (Book 5) A Dying Note (Book 6) Mortal Music (Book 7) Praise for the Silver Rush "Plenty of convincing action bodes well for a long and successful series."― Publishers Weekly STARRED review for Iron Ties "Meticulously researched and full of rich period details…her characters will stay will you long after you've finished the last page. Highly recommended."― TASHA ALEXANDER , New York Times bestselling author for Mortal Music "One of the most authentic and evocative historical series around. Long live Inez!"― RHYS BOWEN , New York Times bestselling author for What Gold Buys Winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction Colorado Gold Award for Best Mystery
410 pages, Paperback
First published September 15,2003
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410 pages, Paperback
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November 16, 2011 by Poisoned Pen Press
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9781590582787
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1590582780
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English
About the author
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Ann Parker earned degrees in Physics and English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, before taking up a career as a science writer. These days, she slings science and technical verbiage for a living during the day and writes fiction at night.
Ann's ancestors include a great-grandfather who was a blacksmith in Leadville, a grandmother who worked at the bindery of Leadville's Herald Democrat newspaper, a grandfather who was a Colorado School of Mines professor, and another grandfather who worked as a gandy dancer on the Colorado railroads. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, Historical Novel Society, Women Writing the West, and Western Writers of America. Ann and her family reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, whence they have weathered numerous boom-and-bust cycles.
Her Silver Rush historical mystery series, published by Poisoned Pen Press, is set primarily in the silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, in the early 1880s. (The sixth in the series, A DYING NOTE, is set in San Francisco, 1881.) The series was picked as a "Booksellers Favorite" by the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
Ann's ancestors include a great-grandfather who was a blacksmith in Leadville, a grandmother who worked at the bindery of Leadville's Herald Democrat newspaper, a grandfather who was a Colorado School of Mines professor, and another grandfather who worked as a gandy dancer on the Colorado railroads. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, Historical Novel Society, Women Writing the West, and Western Writers of America. Ann and her family reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, whence they have weathered numerous boom-and-bust cycles.
Her Silver Rush historical mystery series, published by Poisoned Pen Press, is set primarily in the silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, in the early 1880s. (The sixth in the series, A DYING NOTE, is set in San Francisco, 1881.) The series was picked as a "Booksellers Favorite" by the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
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Even though the story starts slow and is at times (often, let's be honest) quite derivative it was a nice surprise. An easy but entertaining mystery that's worth a read if you've got the time to spare. And as a tour guide at the Healy House and Dexter Cabin in Leadville, I can vouch for the historical accuracy in this story. As a side note, try to get your hands on a physical copy to read this book. The kindle version has a habit of cutting off sentences at the end ps of some chapters.
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Good historical mystery by a local Livermore author!
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Amateurish and anachronistic. I did finish it, because I was somewhat interested in the story, and sometimes in the characters, but it was frequently painful. I think a strong editor could have done a lot to improve it. I don't think they were using the phrase "in a heartbeat" as a measure of time in the late 1800's. And I'm not sure how many times one can be bashed on the head in a month's time and live through it.
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totally enjoyed it. a good page turner.
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This book. This author. The setting. The characters. All of it is wonderful and compelling from start to finish with twists and turns abounding. Once my husband found this series I read through all four of them and couldn’t WAIT for another. Everything about this book screams excellence and resonated with me.
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I was browsing Amazon books recently and was fortunate to find Ann Parker’s first novel Silver Lies among the listings. As a reader and writer of historical novels and period mysteries, I was interested. I read the book, and Ms. Parker, or was it the protagonist Inez Stannert, who set the hook! The author takes you to another time and place, introduces you to interesting characters, and connects them together with a well-written narrative and multi-layered plot. For me, the hallmark of a good mystery is one with a twist I never quite figure out. The author does a masterful job in laying out convincing alternatives and dropping hints with each chapter without giving it away or misleading the reader with an improbable outcome. As in real life, the characters are flawed, which makes them all the more believable. She has done her historical homework; therefore, her descriptions of people and life in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado in the post-civil War era are convincing. Ann Parker is an excellent storyteller who will have you coming back for more…I’m already well into Iron Ties, the second novel in her Silver Rush mystery series. Double thumbs up! Preston Holtry, author, Death in Emily 3 soon to be published. [email protected];[email protected]
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Ok but too long
There are flashes of true brilliance in this book. But on the whole it feels too long. By the end the characters don't feel real. More like marionettes with the author frantically pulling strings to make the plot somehow turn out right. There is a brilliant book buried in this one. But I wish there had been one more deep edit to pull it out. There is much promise in this author, but I'm not sure I'll keep reading to see if the promise ever pans out.
There are flashes of true brilliance in this book. But on the whole it feels too long. By the end the characters don't feel real. More like marionettes with the author frantically pulling strings to make the plot somehow turn out right. There is a brilliant book buried in this one. But I wish there had been one more deep edit to pull it out. There is much promise in this author, but I'm not sure I'll keep reading to see if the promise ever pans out.
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