Blood in the Water and Other Secrets
My Blog random thoughts on writing 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. I appear on alternate Thursdays
Janice's newest book is "Blood in the Water and other Secrets", available now fromWildside Books.
A collection of her published and unpublished short mysteries, the stories encompass a wide range of characters and situations.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.
She has had several new stories published recently. "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.
Janice's novel, "Voices" was a finalist for the Connecticut Center for the Book Fiction Award, which will be given in December. Booklist calls it "A quietly compelling suspense novel with a satisfying end," Kirkus calls it "thoughtful," and the Hartford Courant praises 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.
Law's previous novel was"The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed" from Forge Books. Publisher's weekly calls it a "superbly written thriller," while The New York Times praises the novel's humor and sympathy, and Kirkus Reviews declares "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.
Janice reads 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 Janice's EQMM story,The Star of the Silver Screen.