Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 112, No. 3 & 4. Whole No. 684 & 685, September/October 1998

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Janice Law is the author of nine mystery novels, most involving her series character Anna Peters, one of the earliest of modem women detectives. The first Peters novel received an Edgar Award nomination in 1996 — in 1997, reviewing her novel Cross-check, Booklist said, “Peters remains one of the most fully drawn female leads in crime fiction.” This new story is not a series work, but the characters here too are fully drawn.

Nothing would have been managed without the road, but fortune favors the prepared, as well as the brave, and I’d been preparing for years. Ever since the afternoon Eva “disappeared,” I’ve lived for two things, work and revenge.

I’m an archaeologist, not a famous one, but I think I can say I’m well respected. Solid and tenured, with the requisite two books under my belt, I’ve reached a pleasant academic plateau. My specialty is the burial customs in the Late Riverine Archaic, and while the eastern woodland tribes are not really a glamour area in Native American studies, I have found my researches deeply satisfying — and useful, too, as you will see.

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