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Anne Louise Bannon
When no one can see the cry for help
Undercover operatives Sid Hackbirn and Lisa Wycherly face many of the usual problems of newlywed parents, including raising their son, Nick…
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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…
Fascinating Rhythm is set in December of 1924. A senior editor at Healcroft House Frank Selby turns up dead in his apartment. Problem is, his secretary, Kathy Briscow, never mentioned…
When teacher Brenda Finnegan and her animal trainer boyfriend Bob Zebrinski witness a kidnapping, Brenda decides it’s time to deal with the violence that has dogged her life. Too late…
Sequel to Fascinating Rhythm, in which Freddie and Kathy must find out who’s behind the vandalism on her parents’ farm before someone is killed.
In 1982, Lisa Wycherly was broke, out of work and desperate. So when Sid Hackbirn offered her a job as his live-in secretary, she jumped at it, little knowing just…
Freddie and Kathy are in newly-married bliss when Freddie’s sister, Honoria, finds a dead body in her apartment. Honoria goes into hiding and Freddie and Kathy take up a chase…
There’s been a leak in the courier system that is Operation Quickline, and Lisa Wycherly and Sid Hackbirn are sent to plug it, as bait for a complex trap. As…
Sid Hackbirn and Lisa Wycherly knew that their latest assignment in Lake Tahoe was not going to be your basic pick up of secrets. While it was Lisa’s home town…
In this sequel to a beloved fairy tale, an all-too convenient accident forces a young king and his family into hiding as poor farmers until he can regain his throne…
In Los Angeles in 1870, life was cheap and water could cost you everything. When the body of the Zanjero, or water overseer, Bert Rivers, floats up out of the…
The color of passion is Blood Red. For Freddie Little, it’s the color of the family heirloom ruby and his love for his wife, Kathy. For someone else, the ruby…
Who knew collecting cheap serigraphs could cause such trouble? Mrs. Sperling is blind and a private investigator with a nose for murder, and when a gallery owner is found, her…
When the city marshal gets into a gunfight with his deputy, winemaker and physician Maddie Wilcox is on hand to care for the marshal’s wounds. Then the marshal is smothered…
Family issues and a defense plant sting keep spies Lisa Wycherly and Sid Hacbirn hopping in this fourth installment of the Operation Quickline series. Lisa’s nephew Darby is in trouble…
Lisa Wycherly’s secret life as a spy has always made things tricky for her social life. When her boyfriend, George Hernandez, proposes, she shocks everyone, including herself, by accepting. And…
A night of chaos leads to more murdersPhysician and winemaker Maddie Wilcox has always despaired of how violent Los Angeles is. But one night, in October 1871, the pueblo explodes…
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…
A reluctant PI with two hot cases… Daria Barnes produces plays, not finds suspect. But suddenly she has to take the place of her PI friend with an enemy and…
When past, present, and future collide
Robin Parker does not know what to make of her brother Dean’s discovery in the old English castle, namely a strangely modern room with…
When the unmentionable 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…
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…
Life changes at the speed of light
After Lisa makes a disastrous pickup for Operation Quickline, the top-secret courier group that she and her partner Sid Hackbirn work for, she…
Settling the Present, Finding the Future, Chasing the Past
Robin Parker, her brother Dean, and Elizabeth, the young woman they tried to rescue in But World Enough and Time, have…
There's always a way in...
Jannie Miller finds people. The only person she can't find is her mother, who supposedly perished in a tornado, but is deep in hiding from…
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…
Come, share the joy...
It's The Big Day. Sid Hackbirn and Lisa Wycherly are getting married. But in the days and weeks before the wedding, the pair discover that there…
Sid and Lisa are headed for the shock of their lives - assuming family doesn't make them crazy, their business lets them, and the person gunning for them doesn't succeed.
