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-ag...

Armond Tate is a former TV star with loads of charm and plenty of vices. Nick Blane is a minor mystery novelist down on his luck. Can they make magic together? And what will happen if they do?

In postwar France, a gambler finds that surviving his vacation may be a long shotPeace 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 tab, the young painter Francis Bacon, accompanied by his lover, sees a man gunned down in the street. They do what they can to stanch the flow of blood, but the Frenchman dies in the hospital. Soon afterward, Bacon receives ...

The first three brilliantly realized novels in the Lambda Literary Award–winning historical mystery series featuring the real-life British painter.Spanning London during the Blitz to the postwar French Riviera to Tangier in the 1950s, these three mysteries in Janice Law's award-winning Francis Bacon series richly reimagine the life of the famous and flamboyant Irish-born British painter as an "artist-sleuth . . . unflappable and acidly witty" as he courts danger, s...

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, unstable feeling in the air. Could she have taken the Wrong Door out of the mall?

This series of free ebooks is designed to promote authors you may not have tried before. In this case, Janice Law. Here are 3 complete stories and sample chapters of her latest novel, Homeward Dove.

In colonial Morocco, a painter navigates a conspiracy of forgery, corruption, and murderFor 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 and threatening to gut the painter, too. When David leaves London for Morocco, Francis cannot help but follow this man whom he loves but can no longer trust. In Tangier, they find a thriving community of expats who guzzle champa...

The Lambda Literary Award–winning historical mystery series featuring the real-life British painter continues with three prequels set in Europe between the wars.In this second trilogy that predates the first in Janice Law's award-winning Francis Bacon series, the Edgar Award–nominated author once again delightfully reimagines the famous and flamboyant Irish-born British painter as an "artist-sleuth . . . unflappable and acidly witty" as he courts danger, solves mur...

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 Boswor...

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 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 cafés of Paris. In the City of L...

Lambda Literary Award Finalist: A young Irishman finds love and danger in the shadows of Weimar Germany.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 ...

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 distaste for the pastoral ...