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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 symbols who have been separated for more than 200 years. Capitol Cat & Watch Dog entertains children and adults about America's history, while illustrating the joys of friendship and cooperation to...

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 which a gadfly journalist plunges to his death. Law teams a former criminal court judge with an Indian chief to unravel America's most stubborn historic mystery: the two-century old disappearance of...

If you've ever wondered about your blood relatives: Who ARE these people? I have absolutely nothing in common with them-you'll identify with "Strangers in Blood." Dramatically tracking a card with no return address, Janice Law stirs the ashes of a 50-year estrangement from a much older brother, while trying to unravel a mystery of their heritage. With her experiences, she interweaves profiles of celebrities who reveal their family estrangement...

. . . if our courts are just theaters and not places of justice, where as a nation are we headed? . . . " This excerpted juror's letter is one of many Judge Janice Law weaves into the electrifying narrative of her rookie year on a county criminal court bench in America's fourth largest city. What is it really like to be a judge? Accepting a suggestion from instructors at New Judge's School, Janice Law, a former print journalist, kept a meticul...

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 ha...

MYSTERIOUSPRESS.COM BOOK: This novel is part of the extensive collection dedicated to mystery, crime, and suspense fiction.ACCLAIMED SERIES: The first three books in the Francis Bacon series were nominated for the Lambda Literary Award - and The Prisoner of the Riviera won.A FAMOUS PAINTER REIMAGINED in Roaring Twenties Paris: Law gives us an imaginative portrait of Francis Bacon on the cusp of adulthood.INVENTIVE BLENDING OF GENRES: Law exper...

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 isolated riverside path. When they argue, she rams the child's stroller into his leg, and he strikes her. She falls awkwardly, fatally hitting her head. Jeff panics and flees, leaving only a little boy ...

Budding artist Francis Bacon heads to Paris to paint, love, and spy in the Roaring Twenties.

In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery, corruption, and murder.

Young Irishman Francis Bacon finds love and danger in the shadows of Weimar Berlin.

In postwar France, young painter Francis Bacon finds that surviving his vacation may be a long shot.

A killer takes refuge in the blacked-out streets of wartime London, upending the world of Mr. Bacon.

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 dog with a cat who lives secretly in the U.S. Capitol Building. When the daring duo invades the U.S. Supreme Court nocturnally, they meet a new character-Supreme Cat-who joins in their quest to preserve ...

Young Irishman Francis Bacon finds love and danger in the shadows of Weimar Berlin.

Budding artist Francis Bacon heads to Paris to paint, love, and spy in the Roaring Twenties.

In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery, corruption, and murder.

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In postwar France, young painter Francis Bacon finds that surviving his vacation may be a long shot.