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Janice Law (born 1941), 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, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, The Midwest Quarterly, The American Scholar, and the American Quarterly. She is best known for her Anna Peters series of novels, which was one of the first to feature a female detective.

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

Law was nominated for an Edgar Award in 1977 for her first Anna Peters novel, The Big Payoff. 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, and won the award the following year for its sequel, The Prisoner of the Riviera.

Awards

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)

References

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

• Official website

• 20th-century American novelists
• 21st-century American novelists
• American mystery writers
• Living people
• American women mystery writers
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women writers
• American women novelists
• 1941 births