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Award-winning author Anna Castle writes mystery series: two and counting. She has earned a series of degrees -- BA in the Classics, MS in Computer Science, and a PhD in Linguistics -- and has had a corresponding series of careers -- waitressing, software engineering, assistant professor, and archivist. Writing fiction combines her lifelong love of stories and learning. Historical fiction allows her to time travel and you may notice all her books are set in places that are fun to visit. That’s not an accident! Anna physically resides in Austin, Texas, but mentally counts herself a queen of infinite space.

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Murder by Misrule (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 1)
Murder by Misrule (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 1)
by Anna Castle
Brilliant Francis Bacon is at a loss -- and in danger.Bacon must put down his books and investigate the murder of a fellow barrister at Gray's Inn in order to regain the queen's favor. He recruits his unwanted protégé, Thomas Clarady, to do the tiresome legwork. The son of a wealthy privateer, Tom will gladly do anything to climb the...
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The Widows Guild (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 3)
The Widows Guild (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 3)
by Anna Castle
London, 1588. Someone’s turning Catholics into widows...... and masking the crimes under cover of Armada fever. Francis Bacon is charged with identifying the murderer by the Andromache Society, a widows’ guild led by his formidable aunt. Thomas Clarady and Lady Alice Trumpington help investigate while struggling to keep themselves out of...
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Moriarty Brings Down the House (The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery Series Book 3)
Moriarty Brings Down the House (The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery Series Book 3)
by Anna Castle
“Either my theater is haunted or someone’s trying to drive me into bankruptcy!”Professor Moriarty’s new client is the manager of a West End theater. He’s three weeks away from opening his Christmas pantomime, the expensive spectacle that pays for the rest of the year. But after months of freak accidents and spooky incidents, the cast and...
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Let Slip the Dogs (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 5)
Let Slip the Dogs (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 5)
by Anna Castle
Secret trysts, daring dalliances, and a pair of pedigreed hounds... ... keep Francis Bacon and his team busy while trying to catch a reckless murderer. It’s Midsummer, 1591, at Richmond Palace, and love is in the air. Gallant courtiers sport with great ladies while Tom and Trumpet bring their long-laid plans to fruition at last....
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In Walked a Lady: A Francis Bacon mystery short story
In Walked a Lady: A Francis Bacon mystery short story
by Anna Castle
Thomas Clarady, Francis Bacon’s clerk, tackles a case on his own.When a beautiful young woman comes looking for Bacon’s special services, Tom offers himself as a ready substitute. He needs the money and Bacon would probably say no. But as the day progresses, he finds matching wits with the lady and her equally alluring sister to be...
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The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mysteries: Books 1-3 (The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery Series)
The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mysteries: Books 1-3 (The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery Series)
by Anna Castle
Professor and Mrs. Moriarty seek justice where the law can’t — or won’t — apply.In this series of lively stories, they assemble a band of misfits -- others who have been cast out or falsely accused -- to help them defend the victims of the rich and powerful in Victorian society.Book 1: Moriarty Meets His Match. Prof. Moriarty has one...
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Bacon's Dozen: Thirteen Historical Fiction Short Stories (A Francis Bacon Mystery)
Bacon's Dozen: Thirteen Historical Fiction Short Stories (A Francis Bacon Mystery)
by Anna Castle
Welcome to the imaginary worlds of award-winning author Anna Castle.This collection of short stories ranges through time and space from the Yucatán peninsula in the early years of the Spanish conquest (The Broken Circle) to a bank office in late Victorian London with Prof. Moriarty and his wife (The Stockbroker’s Wife.) Most stories...
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Now and Then Stab (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 7)
Now and Then Stab (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 7)
by Anna Castle
Spring, 1593. A ballad is posted in the heart of London inciting violence. The Lord Mayor offers one hundred crowns for the name of the author. Thomas Clarady wants that money and drags Francis Bacon into the game. At first it’s just a riddle to be solved. Tom talks to poets, while Francis analyzes the verse. Things take a dangerous turn...
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The Case of the Tangled Maypole (A Cunning Woman Mystery Book 2)
The Case of the Tangled Maypole (A Cunning Woman Mystery Book 2)
by Anna Castle
It’s May Day, a time of joyful song and dance. But Jane Moone is called at sunrise to view a sorrowful sight — Lucy Quirk, strangled in the maypole’s tangled ribbons. Lucy came to Ayreford to re-unite with her long-lost father. The prominent cunning man is delighted to welcome her into his work, as well as his life. But Lucy has her own...
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The Case of the Spotted Tailor (A Cunning Woman Mystery Book 1)
The Case of the Spotted Tailor (A Cunning Woman Mystery Book 1)
by Anna Castle
Welcome to Ayreford in 1591, where cats can talk and fairies are real.Jane Moone leaves her thriving practice as a cunning woman in London to return to Ayreford to care for her father Amias, who has grown quite peculiar in the years since she left home. Before she can find out what’s troubling him, her only client’s husband is murdered....
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Lock Up Honesty (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 8)
Lock Up Honesty (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 8)
by Anna Castle
The most corrupt court in Elizabethan England has turned deadly.Francis Bacon’s clerk, Thomas Clarady, has finally passed the bar. Now it’s time to sue for his livery in the Court of Wards. Alas, nothing is simple in the most corrupt institution in Tudor England. The attorney tries to wring a bribe from Tom, who refuses in threatenting...
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The Spymaster's Brother (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 6)
The Spymaster's Brother (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 6)
by Anna Castle
Anthony Bacon is home with a wealth of foreign secrets — and a few of his own.Though seldom strong enough to leave his rooms in brother Francis’s house, Anthony’s gouty legs never hinder his agile mind. He’s built the most valuable intelligence service in Europe. Now the Bacon brothers are ready to offer it to the patron with the deepest...
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Black & White & Dead All Over (The Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery Series Book 1)
Black & White & Dead All Over (The Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery Series Book 1)
by Anna Castle
What happens when the Internet service provider in a small town spies on his clients' cyber-lives and blackmails them for gifts and services?Murder; that's what happens. Penelope Trigg moves to Lost Hat, Texas to open a photography studio and find herself as an artist. Things are going great. She's got a few clients, some friends, even a...
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Mustard on Velvet: A Francis Bacon mystery short story
Mustard on Velvet: A Francis Bacon mystery short story
by Anna Castle
Agnes Merrythought, laundress for Gray's Inn, has to cope with two perplexing problems in one busy morning.
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The Case of the Miscast Curse (A Cunning Woman Mystery Book 3)
The Case of the Miscast Curse (A Cunning Woman Mystery Book 3)
by Anna Castle
Jane Moone is hired to identify the witch who cursed a sheep. But her client, Kate Grazier, has already decided who did it -- Dorcas Whiting, the hedge witch who happens to be Jane’s father’s sweetheart. Dorcas would never harm an innocent sheep and everyone knows it, but she’s arrested before Jane can credit the accusation. Now she has...
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Death by Disputation (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 2)
Death by Disputation (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 2)
by Anna Castle
Thomas Clarady risks his life, his eternal soul — and his chastity!Tom is recruited to spy on a group of radical Puritans at Cambridge University with Francis Bacon as his spymaster -- his tutor in tradecraft and politics. Their commission gets off to a deadly start when Tom finds his chief informant hanging from the roof beams. Now he...
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The Francis Bacon Mysteries: Books 1-3 (A Francis Bacon Mystery)
The Francis Bacon Mysteries: Books 1-3 (A Francis Bacon Mystery)
by Anna Castle
Three award-winning historical mysteries in one convenient package! Francis Bacon reluctantly puts down his books to solve crimes in Elizabethan London, aided by Thomas Clarady, a privateer’s son who will do anything to climb into the gentry — or up to a lady’s bedchamber. In Murder by Misrule , Francis Bacon must catch a killer to...
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Flash Memory (The Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery Series Book 2)
Flash Memory (The Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery Series Book 2)
by Anna Castle
Nature photographer Penelope Trigg has landed the job of her dreams:Documenting the transformation of over-grazed rangeland into an eco-dude ranch and spa, owned by her boyfriend Tyler Hawkins. Then a body is found on the ranch and Ty is arrested. The victim was an aggressive real estate developer with his greedy eyes on Ty’s land and...
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Publish and Perish (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 4)
Publish and Perish (A Francis Bacon Mystery Book 4)
by Anna Castle
Someone’s killing London’s wittiest pamphleteers.It’s 1589 and England is embroiled in a furious pamphlet war between an impudent Puritan calling himself Martin Marprelate and publishing’s brightest wits. The archbishop wants Martin to hang. The Privy Council wants the tumult to end. But nobody knows who Martin is or where he’s hiding...
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Moriarty Takes His Medicine (The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery Series Book 2)
Moriarty Takes His Medicine (The Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery Series Book 2)
by Anna Castle
Professor & Mrs. Moriarty tackle a case too ticklish for Sherlock Holmes to handle on his own.James and Angelina Moriarty are settling into their new marriage and their fashionable new home — or trying to. But James has too little to occupy his mind and Angelina has too many secrets pressing on her heart. They fear they’ll never learn to...
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