Janice Law
American novelist
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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]
- Novelist
- short story writer
Janice Law | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 84–85) |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University University of Connecticut |
| Genre | Mystery fiction |
| Notable awards | Lambda Literary Award for Mystery (2013) |
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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
| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 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
Anna Peters mysteries
- 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
- 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
- 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)