Anna Castle writes the Francis Bacon mysteries and the Lost Hat, Texas mysteries. 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, grammar-writing, assistant professor, and archivist. Writing fiction co.... more
Anna Castle writes the Francis Bacon mysteries and the Lost Hat, Texas mysteries. 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, grammar-writing, assistant professor, and archivist. Writing fiction combines her lifelong love of stories and learning. She physically resides in Austin, Texas and mentally counts herself a queen of infinite space.
Anna Castle's Projects
Black & White & Dead All Over: A Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery (The Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery Series Book 1)
What happens when the Internet service provider in a small town spies on his clients' cyber-lives an... more
Death by Disputation
Thomas Clarady is recruited to spy on a group of radical Puritans at Cambridge University. Francis B... more
Moriarty Meets His Match: A Professor & Mrs. Moriarty Mystery
Professor James Moriarty has one desire left in his shattered life: to stop the man who ruined him f... more
Moriarty Takes His Medicine
James and Angelina Moriarty help Sherlock Holmes investigate a case he can’t pursue alone: a doctor ... more
Murder by Misrule
Francis Bacon must catch a murderer to regain Queen Elizabeth’s favor. He recruits handsome Thomas C... more
Now and Then Stab
London, 1593. An anonymous ballad calls for violence. The mayor offers 100 crowns for the author’s n... more
Publish and Perish
It’s 1589 and England is embroiled in a furious pamphlet war between an impudent Puritan calling him... more
The Widows Guild
London, 1588: Someone is turning Catholics into widows, taking advantage of armada fever to mask the... more