12 Months to Live (Jane Smith Thriller #1)

by James Patterson, Mike Lupica Narrated by Eva Kaminsky

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

The dynamic thriller duo is back with one of the most memorable main characters in Patterson's lengthy history in the genre. This courtroom thriller is ripe with tension and oozing with suspense.

“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.

Editorial Reviews

James Patterson and Mike Lupica

Jane Smith is the best character we’re ever created. Bar none.”

Kirkus Reviews

2023-08-25
A Long Island attorney locked in the most crucial trial of her career learns that she has—well, you know.

All things considered, things have been going pretty well for Jane Smith. Sure, she’s twice divorced; she’s not all that close to her sister, Brigid, who also has cancer; and Rob Jacobson, the client accused of killing Mitch and Kathy Gates and their teenage daughter, Laurel, is a lying piece of trash. But Jane and her investigator, tavern owner Jimmy Cunniff, have just been asked to look again into the high-profile Carson case, involving another family of three who were shot dead some years ago. Although she’s far from certain that Jacobson is innocent, Jane’s never yet lost a case, and she doesn’t intend to lose this one. She responds to the mountain of forensic evidence presented by Suffolk County D.A. Kevin Ahearn, who’s also never lost a case, by crowing that there’s no motive, until suddenly she’s confronted with a compelling motive and a whole new collection of lies that bring her up against crooked ex-cop Joe Champi, who may not have killed himself after all, and get Jimmy shot twice and beaten once, as if there were nothing else for him to be doing. Patterson seems entirely absent from this collaboration, which reads a lot more like Lupica, and not top-drawer Lupica. The overstuffed plot never seems any more believable than Jane’s damn-the-torpedoes response to her worsening symptoms. But it’s hard not to sympathize with an overstressed attorney who insists on performing herself daily because “crazy is kind of my thing.”

As fast-moving and forgettable as that fly you keep swatting in vain.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178184356
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	09/25/2023
Series:	Jane Smith Series , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged

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