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T J MacGregor

(Patricia Marie Janeshutz MacGregor)

(b.1947)

aka Alison Drake, Trish Janeshutz

Names are tricky little things. T.J. MacGregor was born with one name (Patricia Janeshutz), got nicknamed (Trish), then changed her name when she got married (MacGregor). She published her first two novels as Trish Janeshutz, a last name that few could pronounce or spell. So her editor at that time asked her to come up with a simpler name that contained initials - i.e., an androgynous name, because suspense novels by men were selling better at that time than suspense novels by women.

Awards: Edgar (2003) see all

Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction

Series

Quin St. James and Mike McCleary
   Dark Fields (1986)
   Kill Flash (1987)
   Death Sweet (1988)
   On Ice (1989)
   Kin Dread (1990)
   Death Flats (1991)
   Spree (1992)
   Storm Surge (1993)
   Blue Pearl (1994)
   Mistress of the Bones (1995)

Tango Key Mysteries
   1. Tango Key (1988) (as by Alison Drake)
   2. Fevered (1988) (as by Alison Drake)
   3. Black Moon (1989) (as by Alison Drake)
   4. High Strangeness (1992) (as by Alison Drake)
   5. The Other Extreme (2001)

Mira Morales
   1. The Hanged Man (1998)
   2. Black Water (2003)
   3. Total Silence (2004)
   4. Category Five (2005)
   5. Cold as Death (2006)

Nora McKee & Alex Kincaid
1. Kill Time (2007)
2. Running Time (2008)

Hungry Ghosts
   1. Esperanza (2017)
   2. Ghost Key (2017)
   3. Apparition (2017)

Novels

   In Shadow (1985) (as by Trish Janeshutz)
   Hidden Lake (1987) (as by Trish Janeshutz)
   Lagoon (1990) (as by Alison Drake)
   The Seventh Sense (1999)
   Vanished (2001)
   Out Of Sight (2002)
   U R miNe (2016)
   Skin Shifters (2018)
   White Crows (2022)

Books containing stories by T J MacGregor

Mystery in the Sunshine State (1999)
edited by
Stuart M Kaminsky

The First Lady Murders (1999)
edited by
Nancy Pickard

The Best of Sisters in Crime (1997)
(Sisters in Crime)
edited by
Marilyn Wallace