Janice Law

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Janice Law
Born1941 (age 82–83)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSyracuse University
University of Connecticut
GenreMystery fiction
Notable awardsLambda Literary Award for Mystery (2013)
Website
www.janicelaw.com

Janice Law (born 1941),[1] also known as Janice Law Trecker, is an American mystery novelist and short story writer. She has written for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine,[2] Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, The Midwest Quarterly, The American Scholar, and the American Quarterly.[3] She is best known for her Anna Peters series of novels, which was one of the first to feature a female detective.[4]

Law is a graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut, where she served as an instructor and assistant professor of English.[5]

Law was nominated for an Edgar Award in 1977 for her first Anna Peters novel, The Big Payoff.[6] In 2013, she was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery for Fires of London, the first novel in her Francis Bacon series,[7] and won the award the following year for its sequel, The Prisoner of the Riviera.[8]

Awards[edit]

Year Title Award Result Ref.
1977 The Big Payoff Edgar Award for Best First Novel Finalist [9]
2013 Fires of London Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery Finalist [10]
2014 The Prisoner of the Riviera Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery Winner [11][12]
2015 Moon Over Tangier Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery Finalist [13]
2017 Nights in Berlin Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery Finalist [14]

Publications[edit]

Anna Peters mysteries[edit]

  • The Big Payoff (1975)
  • Gemini Trip (1977)
  • Under Orion (1978)
  • The Shadow of the Palms (1980)
  • Death Under Par (1980)
  • Time Lapse (1998)
  • Backfire (1994)
  • Cross-Check (1997)

Francis Bacon mysteries[edit]

  • Fires of London (2012)
  • The Prisoner of the Riviera (2013)
  • Moon Over Tangier (2014)
  • Nights in Berlin (2016)
  • Afternoons in Paris (2017)
  • Mornings in London (2017)

Other works[edit]

  • Preachers, Rebels, and Traders: Connecticut, 1818-1865 (1975)
  • Women on the Move (1975)
  • All the King's Ladies (1986)
  • The Countess (1989)
  • Infected Be the Air (1991)
  • A Safe Place to Die (1995)
  • The Night Bus (2000)
  • The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed (2002)
  • Voices (2003)
  • Blood in the Water and Other Secrets (2011)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Janice Law". Goodreads. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  2. ^ Law, Janice (2011). Blood in the Water and Other Secrets. Wildside Press. ISBN 9781434430472. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  3. ^ "Janice Law Trecker". JSTOR. 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  4. ^ Gorman, Ed (September 13, 2003). The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4: Fourth Annual Collection. Macmillan. p. 92. ISBN 9781429974394. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  5. ^ "Janice Law Trecker, Adjunct Instructor" (PDF). University of Connecticut. September 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  6. ^ "Janice Law: Bio". Mysterious Press. 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  7. ^ "25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!". Lambda Literary Foundation. June 4, 2013. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  8. ^ Waddington, Chris (June 3, 2014). "Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices". The Times-Picayune. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  9. ^ "Category List – Best First Novel". Edgar® Awards Info & Database. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  10. ^ "25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!". Lambda Literary. 2013-06-04. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  11. ^ bent (2014-06-03). "Full List of 2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners". IndieWire. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  12. ^ "Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced". Lambda Literary. 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  13. ^ Bennett, Karma (2015-06-04). "Lambda Literary Award 2015 Winners Announced". Alibris. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  14. ^ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2022-01-16.

External links[edit]

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