Anna Denning – A Mystery Series
Here are the books in the Anna Denning series, in the recommended reading order.
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The Witch Tree
All genealogist Anna Denning wants is a quiet Christmas in Elk Park, Colorado. A chance to grieve the death of her husband and recover what’s left of her faith in God. But four days before Christmas she discovers a client’s body, and when she starts asking questions no one wants answered, she becomes the killer’s next target. Now she must draw on her wounded faith for the courage to enter a world of wicca and witchcraft, of neopagans and winter solstice celebrations—reminders of a past she buried long ago. Will that past come back to haunt her? Or will she find the strength to stop a killer?
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Sparrow House
When the owner of a mansion in the Colorado mountains hires Anna Denning to research his family tree, it’s Anna’s dream come true. A library brimming with old documents, an undiscovered family history—what more could a genealogist want?
Excited by the possibilities and fueled by a new love in her life, Anna, tenacious as ever, is undeterred by rumors that a ghost haunts the mansion. Until she uncovers records that suggest those rumors are more than idle talk.
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The Sacrifice
It’s nearly Halloween in Elk Park, Colorado, and one of the Elk Valley Historical Society’s founding members, a retired history professor who wanted to hire genealogist Anna Denning to complete his secret research into the family trees of two other members, has been found dead—the victim of a brutal murder. When a friend of the victim pleads with Anna to complete the professor’s work, Anna agrees. Her decision leads her into a disturbing world of lies, concealed identities, and the occult.
With courage and a hefty helping of stubborn resolve, and facing major changes in her personal life, Anna digs beneath the surface of the past to discover the dangerous secret behind a decades-old murder.
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The Club
Summoned by her father to Elk Park, Colorado, Melinda Maxwell hopes to finally learn why he cut off all contact with his family and became a “monster,” as Melinda calls him. Four days into her stay, and frustrated by his silence, she hires genealogist Anna Denning to locate her long-lost grandparents. Already immersed in trying to locate the family of a murdered man for the Elk Park Police, Anna agrees to the challenge.
Two clues—a severed finger and a scrap of paper with a strange name written on it—lead Anna to believe that Maxwell’s father and the murdered man are somehow connected. When a second murder victim is found, Anna soon discovers what links them all: an eccentric, and dangerous, group of occultists who come together once a year to form the January Club.
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Bitter Roots
Anna Denning and her fiancé are determined to spend a restful weekend at a mountain hotel. Sleeping late, reading books by a roaring fire. All they have to do is ignore the raging snowstorm outside and the hotel’s strange guests and surly staff inside. But when one of those guests, a newspaper reporter, tells Anna the police are investigating two of the other guests—and that she’s been sent to spy on them—Anna’s hopes for a quiet getaway begin to fade. They’re dashed altogether when she realizes she’s sharing her weekend with a cold-hearted killer.
In order to survive, Anna must discover the truth about her fellow guests. Who are these people? And what has brought them together, to an isolated hotel, in the middle of a Colorado snowstorm?
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