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Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery | Westerns

Historical Time Period
American West | Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Coruption | Crimes | Murder | Mystery | Westerns
Geographic Region
Colorado | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Award-Winning Book
Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award Nominee | WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction
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Silver Lies (Silver Rush #1)

Author: Parker, AnnPart of a Series: Silver Rush

They all came to Leadville with the same purpose: 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 wonders: 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….

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery | Westerns

Historical Time Period
American West | Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Family Relationships | Murder | Mystery
Geographic Region
California | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Award-Winning Book
Agatha Award Nominee for Best Historical Novel | Macavity Award Nominee for Sue Feder Historical Mystery | Other Awards
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Mercury’s Rise (Silver Rush #4)

Author: Parker, AnnPart of a Series: Silver Rush

In summer 1880, many come to the fast-rising health resort of Manitou, Colorado, at the foot of Pike’s Peak to “chase the cure” for tuberculosis.

But Inez Stannert, part-owner of the Silver Queen Saloon in Leadville, travels for a different reason. After a long separation, she’s reuniting with her young son, William, and her beloved sister, Harmony. However, the stagecoach journey to Manitou turns lethal when East Coast businessman Edward Pace mysteriously dies under the horrified gaze of Inez and Pace’s wife and children. After they arrive at the hotel, Pace’s widow begs Inez to make inquires into her husband’s untimely death. As Inez digs deeper, she uncovers shady business dealings by those hoping to profit from the coming bonanza in medicinal waters and miracle remedies, medical practitioners who kindle false hopes in the desperate and the dying, and deception that predates the Civil War. Then Inez’s husband, Mark Stannert, reappears after a year-and-a-half unexplained absence.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery | Westerns

Historical Time Period
American West | Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Murder | Mystery
Geographic Region
Colorado | United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
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Leaden Skies (Silver Rush #3)

Author: Parker, AnnPart of a Series: Silver Rush

The summer of 1880: although possible investment in Leadville’s silver mines is a main reason that former president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant is now touring this city at the top of the Rockies, others in his retinue and in town are enticed by other visions. As part owner of the Silver Queen Saloon, Inez Stannert has often observed the ruination that comes from yielding to temptation. Still, that knowledge hasn’t stopped Inez from striking a backroom deal with upscale brothel madam Frisco Flo, a deal that Inez gambles will make her financially independent.

Some steamy intimate scenes so be warned.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Westerns

Historical Time Period
American West | Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Trains or Railroads | Ulysses S. Grant | Wild West
Geographic Region
Colorado | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men | Woman/Women
Award-Winning Book
Colorado Book Award for Genre Fiction
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Iron Ties (Silver Rush #2)

Author: Parker, AnnPart of a Series: Silver Rush

The railroad is coming west, all the way to Leadville and its rich Rocky Mountain mines, not to mention millionaires. And who is coming to celebrate the arrival of the Denver & Rio Grande but Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States and former commander of the Union armies. Like other residents in the Colorado boom town this summer of 1880, Inez Stannert regards the news as mixed. With her business partnership in the Silver Queen Saloon shaky and the bonds of family tightening (her husband is still missing and her baby is still back East), Inez doesn’t need the lawlessness of Leadville to turn, once again, into murder. But Inez isn’t the only one with iron ties to the past. Some folks have wicked memories of the war, others a stake in the competing railroad lines. And Inez’s friend, photographer Susan Carothers, gets caught in the crossfire. . . .

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