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Janice Law |
Blood in the Water and Other Secrets My Blog random thoughts on writing, painting, birds, and other obsessions. Criminal Brief blogs on short mystery fiction.Now closed although the pages are still up. I appeared on alternate Mondays SleuthSayers blogs on mystery fiction by a lot of the old CB gang and lots of talented new writers. I have retired from the site but still appear as an occasional guest |
My newest book is "Blood in the Water and other Secrets", available now from Wildside Books. The Fires of London, a new mystery, is scheduled for publication by the msyteriouspress.com. A collection of my published and unpublished short mysteries, the stories in "Blood in the Water" encompass a wide range of characters and situations. A lonely frontier wife seizes the chance to secure an infant, a woman on the run finds the perfect protective garment, an elderly stroke victim finds a way to save a neighbor, and an illegal immigrant and his girlfriend turn the tables on a modern day Bluebeard. Hear samples from the collection via the podcasts listed below. I have had several new stories published recently, with "The Best Thing for the Liver" scheduled for this spring in Alfred Hitchcock, and "The General" appearing in the MWA anthology Vengeance, edited by Lee Child. "The Chef" a non-mystery story, appears in the new issue of Connecticut Muse Read the Spring Issue Online . "Armies of the Night" appears in the newly released Level Best Books anthology, Dead Calm."The writing Workshop" appeared in Alfred Hitchcock in Jan/ Feb 2011 and "Enemies" in May 2011. "The City of Radiant Brides" appeared in Ellery Queen in June 2010 and "Madame Selina" was published in Alfred Hitchcock the same month. My novel, "Voices" was a finalist for the Connecticut Center for the Book Fiction Award. Booklist called it "A quietly compelling suspense novel with a satisfying end," Kirkus called it "thoughtful," and the Hartford Courant praised the books "depth and grace," Based on a disappearance near the author's childhood home in eastern New York state, "Voices" concerns a young woman's search for her lost family and her efforts to reconcile herself to the people who raised her, to her husband, and to the life she's made.
My previous novel was"The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed" from Forge Books. Publisher's weekly called it a "superbly written thriller," while The New York Times praised the novel's humor and sympathy, and Kirkus Reviews declared "The Lost Diaries", "Law's best so far." Set in a Connecticut college town, "The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed" concerns a philandering professor who pays dearly for his one romantic failure and a young writer of great talent who lives in her pickup truck and who longs to have an interesting and complicated life. I read The Helpful Stranger and Secrets. Two good sources for mystery podcasts are The Podcast Page at Alfred Hitchcock's Mysery Magazine and The Ellery Queensite, where a professional podcast of my EQMM story,The Star of the Silver Screen. |
