About Ann

Ann Parker, author of the Silver Rush historical mystery series, is a native Northern Californian with family roots in Colorado. Her ancestors include a great-grandfather who was a blacksmith in Leadville, Colorado, 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.

The first five books of her award-winning Silver Rush historical mystery series are set primarily in 1880 in the silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. The three most recent mysteries bring her protagonist, Inez Stannert, to San Francisco in the early 1880s. The series was picked as a “Booksellers Favorite” by the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association and is published by Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks.

After wrapping up a long career as a science writer in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ann found retirement wasn’t exactly her cuppa tea. So, she is now working part-time as a bookseller at her local indie bookstore, where she is surrounded by books and people who love them. In her spare time, Ann reads (and reads and reads…), writes, herds the household cats, and drinks copious amounts of coffee.

Ann is listed in the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame, and a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, Women Writing the West, and Western Writers of America.