Janice Law, Author . Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0273-1
What starts out as a humdrum tale of a smug, worldly college professor and an off-the-wall student takes a sudden twist into murder and mental torture in this fine novel from the author of The Night Bus
(2000). Jason "Lars" Larson,...
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Janice Law, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-01966-2
Law reconstructs the scintillating, decadent court of Louis XIV, where women craftily utilize every blandishment to become the monarch's favorite. One deft conniver is the Marquise Athenais de Montespan, who has grown exasperated with her capricious
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Janice Law, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5799-9
Edgar-nominee Law ( The Big Payoff ) turns out a middling mystery that rolls along with some charm but never makes much of an impact. Alice Bertram refuses to buy the official story that her philandering ex-husband Max killed his girlfriend and her...
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Janice Law, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3221-7
This crisp, cinematic mystery begins with the drowning death of matinee idol and champion swimmer Henry Brook while he is filming a much-publicized movie on an estate in upstate New York. Independence Mutual, issuers of a multimillion-dollar policy...
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Janice Law, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-312-11474-9
In her seventh appearance (after A Safe Place to Die), Anna Peters is a well-established heroine and businesswoman. Here the savvy, efficient Peters, a PI in Washington, D.C., is hired anonymously to prove the innocence of one Maria Rivas. A...
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Janice Law, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-312-09300-6
The specters of death and infidelity haunt the lush gardens and well-protected homes of exclusive Branch Hill, Conn., in the seventh case (after Time Lapse ) for New York City security expert Anna Peters. Accompanying her artist husband Harry to the
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Janice Law, Author Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-84882-8
Eight years after the publication of his well-received debut Arthurian novel, The Last Pendragon, Rice offers up a pulpy thriller replete with earthquakes, floods, oceanic fish kills, exotic disease and other portents of the apocalypse. A mysterious
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Janice Law. MysteriousPress.com (Open Road Integrated Media, dist.), $16.99 ISBN 978-1-4532-5150-8
Law (Voices) does a bangup job of recreating London during the Blitz and portraying real-life artist Francis Bacon as an unlikely sleuth. A murderer is taking advantage of blackout conditions to target gay men, starting with Damien Hiller, an...
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Janice Law. Open Road/MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 paperback (208p) ISBN 978-1-4976-4149-5
In Law's irresistibly readable third and final Francis Bacon mystery (after 2013's Prisoner of the Rivera), the Anglo-Irish figurative painter and bon vivant follows his on-again-off-again lover, David, to post-WWII Tangier, Morocco—a paradise of "pr
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Janice Law. Open Road/MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-5040-2616-1
Set in 1927, Law’s diverting fourth Francis Bacon mystery (after 2014’s Moon over Tangier) takes the future painter and the black sheep of his family because of his sexual preferences from London, where his father believes the 16-year-old is well on
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