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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2013
  • Latest Book:
    January 2015
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Book List in Order: 21 titles



  • Annis Ward Jackson features the world-famous Appalachian Trail in this fifth book in the Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series. Convinced by a friend to join a women's hiking club for a day on the AT, Rachel has what she considers the bad luck to be the...



  • In Blind Malice, first in a series of 10 murder mysteries set along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Annis Ward Jackson introduces Rachel Myers, a native of the area who has come home from Arizona for her father'...



  • BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY PLUNGE is the second in Annis Ward Jackon's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series. Myers comes home from Arizona to where she was born in the small community of Laurel Hill in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. She's enjoyin...



  • In CHRISTMAS TREE WARS, Annis Ward Jackson's third novel in the Rachel Myers Murder Mystery Series, the reader finds Myers finally and completely settled in the small Appalachian Mountain community of Laurel Hill, North Carolina. The new retirement c...



  • Annis Ward Jackson sets this novel against a backdrop of beautiful Watauga Lake in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. Violet Thurston Oliver is a descendant of pioneers and has no intention of ever vacating the land that has been in her family for n...



  • PATCHWORK is a collection of short stories and essays/articles drawn for the most part from the life experience of Annis Ward Jackson who was born and grew up in the Appalachian Mountains near Boone, North Carolina during the nineteen fifties and six...



  • Annis Ward Jackson's second book in the Ellis Crawford Murder Mystery series, Bought and Died For, finds the young police chief up to his ears in a double murder that was planned so well that real clues are almost non-existant. At first! Then the pos...



  • In Brown Mountain Breakdown, the ninth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, Myers and police detective Robby Barnett launch an effort to try and find what caused a long-time friend, a deputy sheriff, to committ suicide, or whet...



  • Annis Ward Jackson's EXIT HERE FOR MURDER is the third in her Elllis Crawford Murder Mystery series. Police Chief in a small town in eastern North Carolina, the young Ellis Crawford lives by the adage, There is no such thing as an ex-Marine! And it t...






  • HIGH COUNTRY COVERUP is the seventh in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series. In the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Gurney Styles sits in the Sheppard County jail, convicted and waiting to be sentenced for the stabbing dea...



  • HIGHLAND GAMES, number ten in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, finds amateur sleuth Rachel Myers tired and weary from overseeing a new wing that's being added to the retirement center where she is administrator. And she hasn't...



  • INTO THE TWILIGHT is based on a story mostly ignored and/or suppressed by generations of biographers of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. The story of Lincoln having been born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, the illegitimate son of a wealthy...



  • This is the first in Annis Ward Jackson's series, Ellis Crawford Murder Mysteries. A career Marine MP, seriously injured in a terrorist bombing, decides to try life as a police chief in a small town in eastern North Carolina. While attempting to fami...



  • Mahogany Rock Falls is the eighth in the Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series by Annis Ward Jackson. Fall has come to Sheppard County in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. But all is not colorful foliage and apple butter and pumpkin patches. ...



  • Squidoo.com suggests this book as "a good mystery story to pass the time on the auto train." In Mountain Mourning, the sixth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, the amateur sleuth receives a letter and a packet of information ...



  • THE NEW RIVER BLUES, fourth in Annis Ward Jackson's Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, finds the amateur and reluctant detective plunged into an investigation with international implications. All Rachel wants is a few quiet Saturdays at home. What s...



  • In this, the eleventh murder mystery in the Rachel Myers series, Annis Ward Jackson's reluctant detective begins a search for a missing relative of one of her employees. Little does she anticipate the terror that awaits her when she ties the missing ...



  • THE JANUS KILLERS is #4 in Annis Ward Jackson's Ellis Crawford Series. The time is sunny April in the small town of Battenburg in eastern North Carolina. But all is not dogwoods and azaleas and tulips! A young boy has been kidnapped, his stepfather h...



  • These two stories and a reminisence by Annis Ward Jackson make this a delightful trio of holiday shorts.THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN CHRISTMASVILLEA true cynic, Wesley Kempthorn decides he's going to throw a monkey-wrench into Christmas in the sm...






  • In this, the 12th in the Rachel Myers Murder Mystery series, Jackson's amateur sleuth goes to Maine in search of the answer to a sixty year old mystery. Rachel is anticipating some rest and relaxation in the lovely lakeside cottage where she will sta...



  • Hell's Dragon is the fifth installment in the Ellis Crawford Murder Mystery series. Two bodies, a man and a woman, are discovered in a car behind an abandoned tobacco barn, an obvious double suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Or so assumed Police ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Annis Ward Jackson has published 21 books.

Annis Ward Jackson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hell's Dragon, was published in January 2015.

The first book by Annis Ward Jackson, Into the Deep, was published in March 2013.

No. Annis Ward Jackson does not write books in series.