A Dying Note by Ann Parker is a 2018 Foreword INDIES Book Award Finalist

We are happy to share that A Dying Note by Ann Parker is a 2018 Foreword INDIES Book Award finalist! 

A Dying Note appears on the Mystery (Adult Fiction) finalist list. The Foreword Indies are book awards sponsored by Foreword Reviews, and honor books published by independent publishers. They receive thousands of books each year, and a panel of over 120 librarians and booksellers make up a judging panels, narrowing the lists down to finalists and winners in over 60 categories. 

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About the book

Best of the West 2019 - 1st 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 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 and Antonia threatens to tumble about her ears when the badly beaten body of a young musician washes up on the filthy banks of San Francisco's Mission Creek canal. Inez and Antonia become entangled in the mystery of his death when the musician turns out to have ties to Leadville, ties that threaten to expose Inez's notorious past. And they aren't the only ones searching for answers. Wolter Roeland de Bruijn, "finder of the lost," has also been tasked with ferreting out the perpetrators and dispensing justice in its most final form. Leadville's leading madam Frisco Flo, an unwilling visitor to the city with a Leadville millionaire, is on the hook as well, having injudiciously financed the young musician's journey to San Francisco in the first place.

Time grows short as Inez and the others uncover long-hidden secrets and unsettled scores. With lives and reputations on the line, the tempo rises until the investigation's final, dying note.

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About the author

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 What Gold Buys, Silver Lies, Iron Ties, Leaden Skies, and Mercury’s Rise. Her latest novel, A Dying Note, publishes April 2018. Ann’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.

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