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Barbara Parker (1946 or 1947??2009) was an American mystery writer. She wrote 12 novels, the first of which, , was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first mystery novel by an American author. Parker was on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America and
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Barbara Parker was trained as a lawyer and worked as a prosecutor with the state attorney's office in Dade County, Florida before moving into a private practice which specialized in real estate and family law. Parker earned a master's degree in creative writing in 1993. Her first legal thriller was Suspicion of Innocence, published in 1994, which was followed by another seven titles in the series featuring her two lawyer protagonists, and sometime lovers, Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana.
