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Janice Law has published several new stories: "Therapy" in Deadfall, an anthology from Level Best Books, "Golden Years" (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Jan-Feb 2008), and "The Jailor" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine ( Dec 2008). A new story, The City of Radiant Brides, is scheduled for EQMM soon.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.
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.
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.
Her futuristic novel, The City of Dreams, will be posted on this site in weekly installments starting today, February 17, 2010. An illustration and the opening paragraphs are available at City of Dreams, this week's chapter with an attached link to the complete pdf file.
If you prefer a short story, 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 Podcast Page at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.