Thanks to modern print-on demand and the new online publishing companies the early Annas are back in print. The Big Payoff, Gemini Trip, The Shadow of the Palms" and Death Under Par and Under Orionare now available from iUniverse.comand from both online and conventional booksellers.
This first Anna Peters novel was inspired by the then on-going Watergate investigation. I assumed some underpaid and overlooked secretary knew all about what was going on. I moved my secretary to an oil company, gave her a shady background, and cooked up malfeasance in the executive suite.
iUniverse has also reissued my historical novel, All the King's Ladies, about an historical mystery involving poisoning and black magic at the court of Louis XIV.
In addition, Infected be the Air, a non-Anna mystery, set in eastern Connecticut and involving toxic waste and a mysterious murder-suicide, has been reissued. Look for it at iUniverse and bookstores soon.
Besides novels, I publish short stories for major mystery publications. Watch for "A Life in Books", in the October issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.
The last set of Anna Peters mysteries include:
Cross-check, St. Martin's Press,
1997.
Copyright 1997 by St. Martin's Press.
Anna Peters knows little about ice hockey when she agrees to help Jurgen "T-Rex" Parkes, star center of the NHL expansion Orlando Showmen, clear his name of involvement in a teammate's murder. She soon finds out that the game is exciting, but that her client is dubious and Central Florida, dangerous.
" A great sports mystery," Midwest Book Review
"[Anna] Peters remains among the most complex, fully drawn female series leads in crime fiction." Booklist.
Backfire,
Worldwide
paperback, 1996
Copyright 1996 by Harlequin Books S.A.
A high profile arson-murder case is not in her usual pro bono line, but Anna Peters is intrigued by the anonymous caller soliciting her aid in clearing an immigrant housekeeper in the death of her wealthy employer. Anna soon find a trail from Washington, D.C. to Tucson that's littered with dirty money, deception, and death.
<>"Brisk pace, appealing characters, and good plotting...make this another winner." Booklist."This is a smoothly well-done book with terrific plot twists that fans of the series will relish..." Mystery News.
A Safe Place to Die,
Worldwide
paperback, 1995
Copyright 1995 by Harlequin Books S.A.
font size="-1">The posh Estates at Branch Hill, CT offers its wealthy residents state of the art security, but a local girl is found murdered within yards of her home, Anna finds that the gilded Estates have their own secrets and corruption. When another death occurs, she begins to put together a complicated and tragic puzzle.
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