Janice Law

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Janice Law
Born1941 (age 83–84)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Syracuse University
University of Connecticut
Genre Mystery fiction
Notable awards Lambda 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]

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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

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

Publications

Anna Peters mysteries

Francis Bacon mysteries

Other works

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.
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