“Patterson and Lupica make a great team” (Carl Hiaasen) who get “deep into the lives of strong women” (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation—a badass lawyer with a year to live.
“Jane Smith is the best character we’ve ever created. Bar none.”
—James Patterson and Mike Lupica
Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century.
Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders.
She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt.
But Jane doesn’t have much time. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months.
Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.
The series
There’s a reason readers keep coming back to Jane Smith. She’s the kind of heroine who doesn’t just argue cases, she fights them with her life on the line. Once a cop and now a defense attorney in the Hamptons, Jane knows better than most that justice isn’t clean and truth isn’t simple. Every case she takes cuts closer to the bone, and with a clock ticking on her own survival, the choices she makes grow sharper, riskier, and far more personal.
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In this gripping thriller series by James Patterson and Mike Lupica, law, loyalty, and mortality collide in ways that few courtroom dramas dare to touch. The settings shimmer with contrast: the glossy perfection of Long Island’s mansions against the shadows of backroom deals, the calm of coastal mornings against the pulse of violence waiting beneath the surface. Jane’s world is full of powerful people who think they can buy their way out of anything, and one woman determined to prove them wrong.
As her illness threatens to take away her time, Jane races to defend those no one else will, facing down killers, corrupt clients, and the ghosts of her own past. What begins as a legal battle often turns into a fight for survival, where every verdict feels like a heartbeat stolen from the inevitable.
Darkly atmospheric, fast-paced, and layered with moral tension, the Jane Smith Thrillers blend courtroom suspense with raw human vulnerability. They pull readers into a world where justice is fragile, danger is intimate, and one woman’s defiance burns brightest when everything else fades.
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