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Anna Lee Huber was born and raised in a small town in Ohio. From a young age, her imagination was boundless. She spent her summers with her four brothers and one sister playing Star Wars, wearing snow boots and her mothers old nightgowns while swinging plastic bats as light-sabers, and The A-Team hanging off the riding lawn mower (what else were they supposed to use for the van?). In the fourth grade, she penned her first story and asked her teacher to read it to the class. Sure, it was titled Prom Duty, and a ten-year-old doesn't really know much about high school dances, but she chalked it up as her first success. She went on to write several more stories, including a series featuring her own gang of mystery-solving teens, keeping her pen moving despite teenage hormones and a cross-country move to South Carolina.

Having dreamed of becoming a Rock Star, more along the lines of Amy Grant than Britney Spears, Anna attended college in Music City USA Nashville, Tennessee. There, she met her husband while acting in a school production of Our Town. They married just before she graduated summa cum laude from Lipscomb University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and a minor in Psychology. Discovering she was better trained to sing opera than Top 40, and uncertain where her future lay, she found work as an administrative assistant while she tried to find herself again.
 


Genres: Historical Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical
 
New and upcoming books
June 2026

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A Bitter Cut
(Lady Darby Mystery, book 14)
August 2026

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The Bravest Hour
(Verity Kent, book 9)
Series
Lady Darby Mystery
   1. The Anatomist's Wife (2012)
   2. Mortal Arts (2013)
   3. A Grave Matter (2014)
   4. A Study in Death (2015)
   4.5. A Pressing Engagement (2016)
   5. As Death Draws Near (2016)
   6. A Brush with Shadows (2018)
   7. An Artless Demise (2019)
   8. A Stroke of Malice (2020)
   9. A Wicked Conceit (2021)
   10. A Perilous Perspective (2022)
   11. A Fatal Illusion (2023)
   12. A Deceptive Composition (2024)
   13. A Tarnished Canvas (2025)
   14. A Bitter Cut (2026)
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Verity Kent
   1. This Side of Murder (2017)
   2. Treacherous Is the Night (2018)
   3. Penny for Your Secrets (2019)
   4. A Pretty Deceit (2020)
   5. Murder Most Fair (2021)
   6. A Certain Darkness (2022)
   7. The Cold Light of Day (2024)
   8. A Moment's Shadow (2025)
   9. The Bravest Hour (2026)
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Novels
   Secrets in the Mist (2016)
   Sisters of Fortune (2024)
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Omnibus editions show
 
Award nominations
2013 Rita Award for Best First Book (nominee) : The Anatomist's Wife


Anna Lee Huber recommends
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The Sisters of Book Row (2026)
Shelley Noble
"Intriguing, thought-provoking, and starkly relevant, The Sisters of Book Row explores the history of New York's Book Row and the terror of the Comstock Laws through the eyes of three sisters, each nuanced and uniquely fascinating in their own right. This book is certain to further timely discussions around the subjects of book banning and morality laws."
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The Four Queens of Crime (2025)
(DCI Lilian Wyles, book 1)
Rosanne Limoncelli
"A properly thorny mystery and a delightful portrayal of the Queens of Crime. Readers will love this clever story. Its style harkens back to the Golden Age of crime fiction and also introduces them to the first woman detective chief inspector in the CID at Scotland Yard. An artful debut!"
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The Resurrectionist (2024)
A Rae Dunlap
"Brilliantly researched and beautifully written. Dunlap expertly captures the history and cadence of the era, and the thrill and elation of discovery during the Enlightenment, as well as the dark and twisted depths that are the byproducts of progress. A clever tale filled with macabre intrigue and personal revelation."

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