Janice Law

{{short description|American novelist}}

{{infobox writer

|name=Janice Law

|birth_date={{birth year and age|1941}}

|occupation={{flatlist|

• Novelist
• short story writer

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|nationality=American

|alma_mater=Syracuse University
University of Connecticut

|genre=Mystery fiction

|awards=Lambda Literary Award for Mystery (2013)

|website={{url|https://www.janicelaw.com}}

}}

Janice Law (born 1941),{{Cite web |title=Janice Law |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/796191.Janice_Law |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=Goodreads}} 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,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQgk12gPF84C&q=blood+in+the+water|title=Blood in the Water and Other Secrets|last=Law|first=Janice|date=2011|publisher=Wildside Press|accessdate=2014-06-11|isbn=9781434430472}} Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, The Midwest Quarterly, The American Scholar, and the American Quarterly.{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?hp=25&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&so=rel&racc=off&Query=au:%22Janice+Law+Trecker%22&si=1|title=Janice Law Trecker|date=2014|publisher=JSTOR|accessdate=2014-06-11}} She is best known for her Anna Peters series of novels, which was one of the first to feature a female detective.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zYpUcSOUUCYC&q=janice+law+trecker&pg=PA92|title=The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4: Fourth Annual Collection|last=Gorman|first=Ed|date=September 13, 2003|publisher=Macmillan|page=92|accessdate=2014-06-11|isbn=9781429974394}}

Law is a graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut, where she served as an instructor and assistant professor of English.{{cite web|url=http://english.uconn.edu/directory/uploads/cvs/Trecker.pdf |title=Janice Law Trecker, Adjunct Instructor |date=September 2009 |publisher=University of Connecticut |accessdate=2014-06-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102164243/http://english.uconn.edu/directory/uploads/cvs/Trecker.pdf |archivedate=2012-11-02 }}

Law was nominated for an Edgar Award in 1977 for her first Anna Peters novel, The Big Payoff.{{cite web|url=http://mysteriouspress.com/authors/janice-law/default.asp|title=Janice Law: Bio|date=2014|publisher=Mysterious Press|accessdate=2014-06-11}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/06/04/25th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/|title=25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!|date=June 4, 2013|publisher=Lambda Literary Foundation|accessdate=2014-06-10}} and won the award the following year for its sequel, The Prisoner of the Riviera.{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2014/06/lambda_literary_awards_rain_do.html|title=Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices|last=Waddington|first=Chris|date=June 3, 2014|publisher=The Times-Picayune|accessdate=2014-06-10}}