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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 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 a patriotic relic.
Dangerous clues climax in a dark, isolated Washington, D.C. cemetery where human and nonhuman forces threaten the duo's investigation and their lives.
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 a patriotic relic.
Dangerous clues climax in a dark, isolated Washington, D.C. cemetery where human and nonhuman forces threaten the duo's investigation and their lives.
266 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
8 people want to read
About the author
Janice Law
88 books29 followersJanice Law (b. 1941) is an acclaimed author of mystery fiction. The Watergate scandal inspired her to write her first novel, The Big Payoff (1977), which introduced Anna Peters, a street-smart young woman who blackmails her boss, a corrupt oil executive. The novel was a success, winning an Edgar nomination, and Law went on to write eight more in the series, including Death Under Par (1980) and Cross-Check (1997).
After Death Under Par, Law set aside the character for several years to write historical mysteries The Countess (1989) and All the King’s Ladies (1986). After concluding the Peters series, she wrote three stand-alone suspense novels: The Night Bus (2000), The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed (2002), and Voices (2003). Since then, Law has focused on writing short stories, many of which appear in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Fires of London (2012) is her most recent novel. She lives and writes in Connecticut.
After Death Under Par, Law set aside the character for several years to write historical mysteries The Countess (1989) and All the King’s Ladies (1986). After concluding the Peters series, she wrote three stand-alone suspense novels: The Night Bus (2000), The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed (2002), and Voices (2003). Since then, Law has focused on writing short stories, many of which appear in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Fires of London (2012) is her most recent novel. She lives and writes in Connecticut.
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July 30, 2015
In constructing this thriller, Judge Janice Law makes good use of her background as a former federal and state prosecutor and investigative journalist. A neat and exciting book for mystery thriller fans.Start reading it and you won't be able to put it down until you solve the mystery!! I couldn't!!
Tricky codes to break, intricate clues to untangle and heart pounding chases in dark tunnels, a cemetery and the dome of the U.S. Capitol are all fodder for this intense thriller. In the best tradition of the Da Vinci Code, Wicked Good Secrets interwines three seemingly unrelated story lines involving an unlikely cast of characters including American Indians, a retired criminal court judge, henchmen with guns and a unscrupulous art connoisseur. Plus the octogenarian investigative reporter whose insatiable nose for news propels him to the bottom of things more suddenly than he imagined. What do the shocking diary of an American Revoluntionary War soldier,a 19th century Italian art theft and the cornerstone of our nation's Capitol missing for over 200 years have in common? As I said, you won't be able to put it down until you find out.
Tricky codes to break, intricate clues to untangle and heart pounding chases in dark tunnels, a cemetery and the dome of the U.S. Capitol are all fodder for this intense thriller. In the best tradition of the Da Vinci Code, Wicked Good Secrets interwines three seemingly unrelated story lines involving an unlikely cast of characters including American Indians, a retired criminal court judge, henchmen with guns and a unscrupulous art connoisseur. Plus the octogenarian investigative reporter whose insatiable nose for news propels him to the bottom of things more suddenly than he imagined. What do the shocking diary of an American Revoluntionary War soldier,a 19th century Italian art theft and the cornerstone of our nation's Capitol missing for over 200 years have in common? As I said, you won't be able to put it down until you find out.
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