Bøger af Janice Law

Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of writing fictionFor ten years, crime novelist Lawrence Block funneled his wealth of writing expertise into a monthly column for Writer’s Digest. Collected here for the first time are those pieces illuminating the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating vibrant characters and generating seamless plots, to conquering writer’s block and experimenting with self-publishing.Filled with wit and insight, The Liar’s Bible is a must-read for experts, amateurs, and anyone interested in learning to craft great fiction from one of the field’s modern masters.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Capitol Cat and Watch Dog is a fictional narrative of magical realism based on historical fact. It is a fantasy tale where whimsical events entertain while educating. A list of main characters appears at the end so readers can research their biographies. A vocabulary list of words to look up in a dictionary is also included. There are many more Capitol statues than are included in this narrative.

"Francis Bacon awakes in a four-poster bed with a punishing hangover and a naked footman beside him. The setting and company mean he's in the country, and that spells disaster for an up-and-coming artist whose natural habitat is the nightclubs and back alleys of swinging Soho. But he's put aside his distaste for the pastoral life for the sake of his favorite cousin, Poppy, a spirited young debutante who's committed the biggest blunder a deb can make: She's fallen in love with Freddie Bosworth -- and must be rescued at all costs. Bosworth is a cad, an accused blackmailer with a love for Mussolini and dark secrets too terrible to tell. Fortunately, Poppy comes to her senses, breaking the engagement, and Francis thinks their troubles are over. But when the cousins take a walk through the manor grounds the next day, they find a handsome young man in a pin-striped suit lying dead in the grass. Freddie's throat has been cut, and Francis's life is on the line." -- From back cover.

Francis Bacon was having a ball in Berlin--until his uncle Lastings disappeared, leaving Francis alone, broke, and wanted by the German police as well as the burgeoning Nazi party for a political murder he didn't commit. Luckily, for a young painter still learning his craft, there's no better place to find refuge than the cafaes of Paris. In the City of Lights, Francis can perfect his French, complete his education, and--if he's lucky--escape with his life.

Governor Lurleen Wallace of Alabama and Evita Perón, First Lady of Argentina were women in their time but were not women of their time. Born in the same era, both First Ladys emerged as charismatic leaders-the trajectory of their high profile achievements paralleling in astonishing chrysalis patterns, eclipsing the political Suns of the steely-eyed men they married. When a white woman, Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, died of cancer in 1968 in the violent years of Civil Rights confrontations, Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, a top Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lieutenant, issued a public statement: "A dark shadow has been cast across the horizon of America by the death of the Honorable Governor Lurleen Wallace." Her husband George C. Wallace, famously vowed: "Segregation forever." Public admiration of a black leader for the wife of an avowed segregationist was unimaginable in 1968 America. But it did happen. First Lady Evita Perón's mere presence on a dais attracted two million people, demanding in en-masse voice that she run for Vice President of Argentina-a job no female ever held in 1951. Neither woman graduated from high school. Their husbands kept from each, the identical life-threatening medical secret.

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 work to prevent the theft of a giant Saguaro cactus from the U.S. Botanic Garden with the help of Dee, a junior intern. The trio, with the help of the U.S. Capitol Police, thwart the efforts of would-be thieves just in time to save the cactus. 

Capitol Cat and Watch Dog search high and low in the halls of the U.S. Library of Congress for a missing lock of President Thomas Jefferson's hair...with great results! Their caper includes assistance from Cat-alog, the Library's trusty tour guide.

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 boys at school. With afternoons at the cinema, dinner at the Hotel Adlon, and nights at the most outrageous cabarets in Germany-and in his uncle Lastings's bed-he'll fit right in. The Great War having ended over a decade ago, and its resulting economic turmoil in the past, Germany is enjoying the "Golden Twenties"-a time of healthy fiscal growth, and creative and sexual resurgence, centered in Berlin. Yet dark clouds are gathering as Hitler consolidates power within the Nazi Party and brownshirts march through the streets. As tensions rise, Francis finds his uncle Lastings busy welcoming countless men into his hotel room-some invited for pleasure, others to be recruited for the fight against Bolshevism. Lastings seems particularly excited by an upstart National Socialist, some mustachioed fellow from Bavaria named . . . well, Francis doesn't care about the details. But when the Nazis send Lastings fleeing for his life, Francis is left alone, penniless, and hunted, with only his keen sense of hedonism to distract him from a city that gets more menacing every night. Nights in Berlin is the 4th book in the Francis Bacon Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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 BaconFrancis Bacon walks the streets of World War II London, employed as a warden for the ARP to keep watch for activities that might tip off the Axis powers. Before the war, Bacon had travelled to Berlin and Paris picking up snatches of culture from a succession of middle-aged men charmed by his young face. Known for his flamboyant personal life and expensive taste, Bacon has returned home to live with his former nanny—who’s also his biggest collector—in a cramped bohemian apartment. But one night, death intrudes on his after-hours paradise. When a young man is found dead in the park, his head smashed in, Bacon and the rest of London’s demimonde realize that they have much more to fear than the faraway scream of war.

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