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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 experimenti...

Capitol Cat and Watch Dog is a fictional narrative of magical realism based on historical fact.

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 Strangers­in-Blood. Dramatically tracking a card with no return address, Janice Law stirs the ashes of a SO-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...

What is it like to be a judge? At nearly every event I attend, people ask me that.My short answer is: Great! or It's fine! What it is like to be a judge is much too complex to be answered in any brief manner.Shortly after I was elected as judge in Harris County, (Houston, Texas) Criminal Court No. 5, I attended New Judges' School in Dallas with other newly elected judicial colleagues from all over Texas. One December evening, our instructors d...

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 i...

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 history mystery: the two-century old disappearance of the...

This book is about sex.This book is about the institutional power to grant or deny sex.This book details how far human beings are willing to go to achieve a goal. This is a book about the extremes of every passion, including murder.When Deputy Joseph Richard Quinn and three other veteran Harris County sheriff's deputies with guns drawn, burst into a southeast Houston apartment the night of September 17, 1998, searching for a black male with a ...

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-...

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.

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 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 d...

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 isn't entirely sure her client is innocent. She faces an uphill battle: Parkes asked Rene to meet him the night of the murder, and he has no alibit. The Showmen management is more concerned about ...

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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 Life in Crime, " "Lying, " "Blood in the Water, " "My Famous Relative, " "Perfection, " "The Blind Woman, " "A Meeting at the Café Visconti, " "Pigskill, " "The Archeologist's Revenge, " "Star o...

The death of a movie star is always a disaster, but the mysterious drowning of Henry Brook at a party on the set of the epic thriller "The Lazarus Gambit" has ramifications no one expects. That's what brings Anna Peters into the story: Independence Murual had insured both the movie and the star, and they're facing a massive payout if the death is accidental. But it's all too clear that when Brook went off the end of the pier and drowned in the...

When a raging fire destroys the modern mansion of wealthy restauranteur Joseph Skane and kills his disabled wife, Mrs. Skane's nurse, Maria, is arrested for arson and murder. Soon afterward, a mysterious caller hired investigator Anna Peters to help with Maria's defense. Although Anna has had her share of unusual cases, this one is her biggest challenge yet. Maria has refused to speak since running from the burning house, and even when she agr...

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When Deputy Joseph Richard Quinn and three other veteran Harris County, Texas, sheriff's deputies with guns drawn, burst into an apartment the night of September 17, 1998, searching for a black male with a gun, their shocking discovery in the back bedroom triggered a chain of events resulting in a 2003 U. S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas-that state laws criminalizing consensual, adult sodomy are unconstitutional. The landmark Law...

Governor Lurleen Wallace of Alabama and Evita Peron, First Lady of Argentina, were women in their time, but were not women of their time. Born in the same era, both first ladies-of rural, humble birth, who did not graduate from high school-emerged as charismatic leaders, the trajectories of their high-profile achievements and dramatic life journeys paralleling in astonishing chrysalis patterns, eclipsing the political Suns of the steely-eye...