Janice Law

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]

  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.