Janice Law

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Anna Peters

1 - The Big Payoff (1976)
2 - Gemini Trip (1977)
3 - Under Orion (1978)
4 - The Shadow of the Palms (1980)
5 - Death Under Par (Dec-1980)
6 - Time Lapse (Aug-1992)
7 - A Safe Place to Die (May-1993)
8 - Backfire (Dec-1994)
9 - Cross-Check (May-1997)

A Francis Bacon Mystery

1 - Fires of London (Sep-2012)
2 - Prisoner of the Riviera (Dec-2013)
3 - Moon Over Tangier (Sep-2014)
4 - Nights in Berlin (Apr-2016)
5 - Afternoons in Paris (Jan-2017)
6 - Mornings in London (Oct-2017)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • The Big Payoff

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Anna Peters - 1

    Set at the time of the North Sea oil boom, The Big Payoff marks the debut of Anna Peters, the witty, cynical character Booklist called "among the most complex, fully drawn female leads in crime fiction" and whom the New York Times lauded for her "swe...

  • Gemini Trip

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Anna Peters - 2

    Anna Peters, the unorthodox New World Oil Company researcher, learns the price of the good research job she obtained after her successful adventures in The Big Payoff. The Chairman of the Board wants her to do a little favor: track down Crystal Blyth...

  • Under Orion

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Anna Peters - 3

    Anna Peters, the unorthodox New World Oil Company researcher, gets tapped for a delicate mission to pre-unification Germany: collect an East German oil chemist who has discovered how to separate oil from sea water. If genuine, the new process means h...

  • The Shadow of the Palms

    • / Law Enforcement
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    Anna Peters - 4

    Summoned to Florida by her old mentor, Anna Peters is drawn into a grasping, glamorous society and into a vicious smuggling operation involving very high stakes, ruthless criminals, and extreme peril to Anna and her friend, John Hillary...

  • Death Under Par

    Anna Peters - 5

  • All the King's Ladies

    Desperate in her desire for power and her love for the King, the Marquise Athenais de Montespon, Louis XIV's official mistress, becomes enmeshed in intrigue after she makes a pact with sorcerers and witches...

  • Infected Be the Air

    Struggling to cope with her failed marriage, Alice Bertram investigates the deaths of her ex-husband Max, his girlfriend Bev, and Bev's young son, a case that becomes complicated by threats, high-level political intrigue, and murder...

  • Time Lapse

    Anna Peters - 6
    Worldwide Mysteries - 267

    STILL FOOTAGE While shooting The Lazarus Gambit on location in upstate New York, the film's superstar, Henry Brook, tragically drowns. Both the movie and the actor were insured by Independence Mutual, who want to make certain that everything is ab...

  • A Safe Place to Die

    Anna Peters - 7
    Worldwide Mysteries - 179

    For the rich and security conscious, Branch Hill offers the posh Estates - an exclusive community of impressive homes and a state-of-the-art security system. Anna Peters and her artist husband arrive there for his gallery exhibit - but murder steals ...



  • Backfire

    Anna Peters - 8
    Worldwide Mysteries - 201

    TORCHED A high-profile, arson-murder case is not in her usual pro bono line, but Anna Peters is intrigued by the anonymous caller soliciting her aid in clearing Maria Rivas in the death of Helena Skane. Mrs. Skane, invalid wife of wealthy restaurate...

  • Cross-Check

    Anna Peters - 9
    Worldwide Mysteries - 291

    Anna Peters, Washington, D.C.-based private investigator, knows little about hockey or Florida when she agrees to help Jurgen "T-Rex" Parkes, star center of the NHL-expansion Orlando Showmen, clear his name of his teammate Alf Rene's murder. She also...

  • The Night Bus


    A few months ago, Cath Tolland ran away from her life. Boarding a night bus with no credit cards or identification, using the last of her meager cash to buy a one-way ticket to Florida, Cath left behind her home, her friends, and a seemingly happ...

  • The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed

    Professor Jason Larson (Lars), a scholar of Romantic and Victorian poetry at a prestigious Connecticut university, has an unusual way of looking at the world. He sees romance and beauty in everyday life, and lives life to the fullest. He treasures ev...

  • Voices


    There are persistent whispers from the past, growing increasingly stronger. Ever since Leslie suffered a miscarriage several months ago, she’s felt as though there’s more to her childhood than she understands -- or can remember. Why are there...

  • Wicked Good Secrets

    In the style of National Treasure hit films, Janice Law's fast-paced fiction thriller discloses how a wicked secret double-encrypted in an 18th century diary, intersects dramatically with 16th century Vatican art under the U.S. Capitol dome from whic...

  • Blood In The Water And Other Secrets

    This volume collects 22 stories from the author of the Anna Peters mystery series, many published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine or Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Included are: "Secrets," "Lions on the Lawn," "The Summer of the Strangler," "My ...

  • The General

    in Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

    When a different kind of justice is needed -- swift, effective, and personal -- a new type of avenger must take action. Vengeance features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaugh...

  • Fires of London

    A Francis Bacon Mystery - 1

    A killer takes refuge in the blacked-out streets of wartime London, upending the world of one of Britain’s greatest painters in this chilling and captivating reimagining of the life of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon walks the streets of World War I...

  • Prisoner of the Riviera

    A Francis Bacon Mystery - 2

    In postwar France, a gambler finds that surviving his vacation may be a long shot Peace has come to England and the blackout is over, but the gloom has yet to lift from London. One night, leaving a gambling club where he has run up a considerable ...



  • Moon Over Tangier

    A Francis Bacon Mystery - 3

    In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery, corruption, and murder For Francis, life with David grows more dangerous by the day. When sober, he is charming, but when he drinks, he is violent, slashing Francis’s paintings an...

  • Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Unite Lady Freedoms

    When the night magic transforms statues inside the U.S. Capitol into the famous historical personalities they were in life, Capitol Cat & Watch Dog recruit them as a secret Nighttime Congress to lobby for the reunion of two Lady Freedoms-American sym...

  • Homeward Dove

    Jeff Woodbine enlivens his dead end job at the Bargain Barn warehouse by ripping off modest amounts of stock, a little larceny that leads to blackmail by a co-worker. On the opening day of trout season, Jeff sees her pushing a toddler along the isola...

  • Nights in Berlin

    A Francis Bacon Mystery - 4

    A young Irishman finds love and danger in the shadows of Weimar Berlin Francis Bacon has never cared much for country living, so he is overjoyed when his father sends him to Berlin as punishment for his not-so-innocent flirtations with the other b...

  • Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Outwit the U.S. Supreme Court

    Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Outwit the U.S. Supreme Court is a sequel to Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Unite Lady Freedoms. Both tales are fact--and history-based fictional narratives of magical realism. These further adventures continue teaming a police ...

  • Afternoons in Paris

    A Francis Bacon Mystery - 5

    During the glory days of the Roaring Twenties, budding artist Francis Bacon heads to Paris to paint, love, and spy. Francis Bacon was having a ball in Berlin -- until his uncle Lastings disappeared, leaving Francis alone, broke, and wanted by the ...

  • Mornings in London

    A Francis Bacon Mystery - 6

    Artist Francis Bacon gets tangled up in murder while visiting the English countryside in the final mystery of this Lambda Award-winning series. Francis Bacon awakes in a four-poster bed with a punishing hangover and a naked footman beside him. The...

  • Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Hunt Thomas Jefferson's Hair In the Library of Congress

    In this fun, history-based adventure of magical realism, wherein puns abound, Capitol Cat & Watch Dog team to find a missing Library of Congress (LOC) exhibit: a lock of President Thomas Jefferson's hair. Thinking that the hair exhibit may have b...

  • Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Succulent Sleuths Protect U.S. Botanic Garden

    Children's history-based fantasy fiction Capitol Cat & Watch Dog Succulent Sleuths Protect U.S. Botanic Garden is Judge Janice Law's ninth book, and her fourth book detailing the fun Washington D.C. adventures of Capitol Cat and Watch Dog as they...

  • Black Cat Weekly #120

    This issue, we have four original tales to entertain you—mysteries by Eve Fisher (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and Joseph S. Walker (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman)—and science fiction by Janice Law and Alan J. Wah...



  • Black Cat Weekly #128

    This issue has one of the best original stories we’ve published: Janet Law’s brilliant “Wrong Door,” a tale very much in the classic Twilight Zone tradition. Don’t skip it! Though Janice is best known for her mystery sto...

  • Wrong Door

    Nothing could be more routine than shopping with her twelve year old son, but when Beverly drives into their neighborhood, things are subtly and disturbingly different. There's a strange political bumper sticker on their car, too, and an odd, unstabl...

  • The Fountain of Youth

    When her third husband leaves Emmeline for a younger woman, she is devastated. But rather than mourn, Emmeline decides to get revenge by discovering her own fountain of youth. She travels the world researching mysterious botanicals and indigenous med...

Award-Winning Books by Janice Law

Prisoner of the Riviera
2014 Lambda Literary Award -- Gay Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janice Law has published 32 books.

Janice Law does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Fountain of Youth, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Janice Law, The Big Payoff, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Janice Law has 2 series.
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