The Right Honourable The Baroness Cohen of Pimlico
Official portrait of Baroness Cohen of Pimlico
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 3 May 2000 – 19 December 2024 Life peerage
Personal details
Born	Janet Neel (1940-07-04) 4 July 1940 (age 84)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse	James Lionel Cohen ​ (m. 1971)​
Children	3
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge (BA)

Janet Cohen, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico (née Neel; born 4 July 1940), also known as Janet Neel, is a British lawyer and crime fiction writer. She is the daughter of George Edric Neel and Mary Isabel Budge. She was educated at South Hampstead High School, Hampstead, London, England and graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in law.

She started to work as a practising solicitor in 1965. She married James Lionel Cohen on 18 December 1971. She was a governor of the BBC between 1994 and 1999. She was created a life peer as Baroness Cohen of Pimlico', of Pimlico in the City of Westminster, on 3 May 2000^[1] and sits as a Labour peer in the House of Lords. She is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.^[2] Cohen retired from the House of Lords on 19 December 2024.^[3]

As Janet Neel and Janet Cohen she is the author of crime fiction novels.

• Death's Bright Angel (1988)
• Death on Site (1989)^[4]
• Death of a Partner (1991), shortlisted for Gold Dagger Award
• Death Among the Dons (1993), shortlisted for Gold Dagger Award
• A Timely Death (1996)
• To Die For (1998)
• O Gentle Death (2000)

• The Highest Bidder (1992); writing as Janet Cohen
• Children of a Harsh Winter (1995); writing as Janet Cohen
• Ticket to Ride (2005)

• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Voting record at PublicWhip.org
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com