Anne Louise Bannon
Anne Louise Bannon
Anne Louise Bannon is an author and journalist who wrote her first novel at age 15. Her journalistic work, including 15 years as a TV critic, has appeared in newspapers across the country. She is the co-author of Howdunit: Book of Poisons, with Serita Stevens, as well as author of the Freddie and Kathy mystery series, set in the 1920s, the Operation Quickline Series and the Old Los Angeles series, set in the 1870s. Her most recent title is Death of the Chinese Field Hands. She and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters.
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Death of the Zanjero
Book #1 in the Old Los Angeles Series:
In Los Angeles in 1870, life was cheap and water could cost you everything. When the body of the water overseer, Bert Rivers, floats up out of her irrigation ditch, winemaker and healing woman Maddie Wilcox finds herself defending the town’s most...
Death of the City Marshal
It's October, 1870, and once again, violence erupts on the streets of Los Angeles. City Marshal William Warren gets into a gunfight with his deputy Joseph Dye, and is severely wounded. Fortunately, winemaker and physician Maddie Wilcox is on the scene to take care of the marshal. But the next...
Death of the Chinese Field Hands
A night of chaos leads to more murders.
It’s October 24, 1871, and violence erupts in Los Angeles. Eighteen Chinese men are lynched by a mob. Physician and winemaker Maddie Wilcox is glad that the three Chinese field hands she employs are safe. Until one...
Rage Issues
A reluctant PI with two hot cases...
All Daria Barnes wants to do is produce plays, but can't make a living at it. So, her best friend, private investigator Berto Esparza, talks her into working for him as his associate investigating the death of Larry Ochoa, drummer for country-western star...
My Sweet Lisa
Finally, it's real love... Now what?
Lisa Wycherly's surprise birthday party ends in a terrifying disaster when she's kidnapped off the street. Her partner, Sid Hackbirn, is so devastated that he loses his interest in sleeping around - the one thing keeping the two of them apart. The kidnapping gets...
Death of an Heiress
When evil stalks the pueblo
It starts when the inheritance that Lavina Gaines was to receive is stolen by her brother Timothy. Then an old Indian healing woman is murdered. Winemaker and physician Maddie Wilcox wants to find the person responsible for Mama Jane's death, but is also occupied with...
That Old Cloak and Dagger Routine
They only thought they knew what they were getting into.
It was September, 1982. Broke and desperate, Lisa Wycherly thought she was signing on as simply a secretary for wealthy freelance writer Sid Hackbirn. Okay, it was a live-in position, which was weird. But even though Lisa believed sex belonged...
These Hallowed Halls
A deadly amateur, a top-secret formula, and full mating plumage.
In the sixth Operation Quickline story, operatives Lisa Wycherly and Sid Hackbirn are sent undercover at a small arts college in Wisconsin with Lisa as an English professor and Sid as a student.. The job is to find out who...
Just Because You’re Paranoid (Operation Quickline Book 9)
It doesn't mean they're not out to get you
Lisa Wycherly and Sid Hackbirn find themselves up against a relentless enemy and about to get the shock of their lives in book nine of the Operation Quickline series. First, there's the wedding. Not Sid and Lisa's, but her cousin Maggie's,...
Death of a Proper Bostonian
It's August 1873, and at long last, physician and winemaker Maddie Franklin Wilcox makes the journey home to her beloved native Boston. Her business is to deliver her ward and apprentice, Elena Ortiz, to the local women's medical school, and that also includes visiting her father, her sister and her...
Death of the Drunkard
One inoffensive drunkard. So many reasons to kill him.
A bold shooting ends the life of Mr. Hewitt, the buggy manufacturer on a cold night in December, 1872. Physician and winemaker Maddie Wilcox is particularly puzzled, since it was clear that Mr. Hewitt was soon to die of his own...
Amateur Theatricals (Operation Quickline Book 12)
The stage is set for a major undercover operation
Three students have been murdered on a university campus in Kansas. Sid Hackbirn, Lisa Wycherly, and their son Nick Flaherty are sent in as the Devereaux family to find the killer. The local police can’t know that the three students were...
The Room Where it Happened (Operation Quickline Book 14)
The job was a nuisance. The target was a disaster
Sid Hackbirn never knew his mother Sheila. When startling new evidence in Sheila’s murder shows up, Sid isn’t terribly interested until Stella, the aunt who raised him, becomes hellbent on finding out who killed her sister over thirty years...