J. Robert Janes (b. 1935) is a mystery author best known for
writing historical thrillers. Born in Toronto, he holds degrees in
mining and geology, and worked as an engineer, university
professor, and textbook author before he started writing fiction.
He began his career as a novelist by writing young adult books,
starting with The Odd-Lot Boys and the Tree-Fort
War (1976). He wrote his last young adult novel, Murder
in the Market, in 1985, by which time he had begun writing for
adults, starting with the four-novel Richard Hagen series.
In 1992, Janes published Mayhem, the first in the long-running
St-Cyr and Kohler series for which he is best known. These police
procedurals set in Nazi-occupied France have been praised for the
author’s attention to historical detail, as well as their
swift-moving plots. The sixteenth in the series, Clandestine, was
published in 2015.
Praise for J. Robert Janes
“Janes’ prose is elegant, his characters enigmatic and his scenes
dramatic, but his tales can be brutally explicit, exploring the
innumerable ways in which humans mistreat each other.” —January
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