Janice Law Explained

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

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

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)

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Janice Law . 2022-02-27 . Goodreads.
2. Book: Law, Janice. Blood in the Water and Other Secrets. 2011. Wildside Press. 2014-06-11. 9781434430472.
3. Web site: Janice Law Trecker. 2014. JSTOR. 2014-06-11.
4. Book: Gorman, Ed. The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4: Fourth Annual Collection. September 13, 2003. Macmillan. 92. 2014-06-11. 9781429974394.
5. Web site: Janice Law Trecker, Adjunct Instructor . September 2009 . . 2014-06-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121102164243/http://english.uconn.edu/directory/uploads/cvs/Trecker.pdf . 2012-11-02 .
6. Web site: Janice Law: Bio. 2014. Mysterious Press. 2014-06-11.
7. Web site: 25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!. June 4, 2013. Lambda Literary Foundation. 2014-06-10.
8. Web site: Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices. Waddington. Chris. June 3, 2014. The Times-Picayune. 2014-06-10.
9. Web site: Category List – Best First Novel . 2022-02-27 . Edgar® Awards Info & Database.
10. Web site: 2013-06-04 . 25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced! . 2022-01-14 . Lambda Literary . en.
11. Web site: bent . 2014-06-03 . Full List of 2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners . 2022-01-11 . IndieWire . en.
12. Web site: 2014-06-03 . Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced . 2022-01-14 . Lambda Literary . en.
13. Web site: Bennett . Karma . 2015-06-04 . Lambda Literary Award 2015 Winners Announced . 2022-01-14 . Alibris.
14. Web site: 2017-03-14 . 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced . 2022-01-16 . Lambda Literary . en.