Janice Law has published several new stories: "A Work of Art" in Still Waters, an anthology from Level Best Books, "Golden Years" (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Jan-Feb 2008), and "Ideas in My Head" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine ( Sept-Oct 2007). Other recent stories include one in Paraspheres, the anthology of futuristic/ slipstream writing from Omnidawn. In "Side Effects", a seemingly miraculous spinal chord surgery changes a man's life in quite unexpected ways.
She also has a story, Tabloid Press, included in the fifty year anthology from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, edited by Linda Landrigan.She is currently finishing up a new mystery novel.
Janice's novel, "Voices" was a finalist for the Connectcut 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.
Other recent stories include The Chant of the Powwow and The Limner's Masterpiece both of which appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and By Design which ran in Riptide, an anthology of mystery stories published byLevel Best Books.
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.
An earlier novel,The Night Bus, a well received contemporary suspense novel also from Forge Books, is now in trade paperback. Look for it your local bookstore or at your favorite .com book site.
The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed and Night Bus are now available as e-books, too. Diesel ebooks