Author: annparker

Best of the West 2019 – 2nd Place in Mystery, Best Fiction by TrueWest Magazine 2018 – CIPA EVVY Winner for Mystery/Crime/Detective 2018 – CIPA EVVY 2nd Place for Historical Fiction It’s autumn of 1881, and Inez Stannert, still the co-owner of Leadville, Colorado’s Silver Queen saloon, is settled in San Francisco with her young ward, Antonia Gizzi. Inez has turned her business talents to … has turned her business talents to managing a music store, hoping to eventually become an equal partner in the enterprise with the store’s owner, a celebrated local violinist. Inez’s carefully constructed life for herself…