12 Months to Live (Jane Smith Thriller #1)
“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.
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12 Months to Live (Jane Smith Thriller #1)
“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.
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12 Months to Live (Jane Smith Thriller #1)

12 Months to Live (Jane Smith Thriller #1)

by James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Narrated by Eva Kaminsky

Unabridged — 9 hours, 32 minutes

12 Months to Live (Jane Smith Thriller #1)

12 Months to Live (Jane Smith Thriller #1)

by James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Narrated by Eva Kaminsky

Unabridged — 9 hours, 32 minutes

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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

Publishers Weekly

07/31/2023

Lupica’s overstuffed third collaboration with Patterson (after 2023’s The House of Wolves) lays on the melodrama with a trowel. Jane Smith, a tough-as-nails defense lawyer who’s never lost a case, is diagnosed with terminal cancer just as she’s preparing to represent Hamptons real estate mogul Rob Jacobson in a murder trial. He’s been charged with slaughtering three members of a Suffolk County family, and Smith is far from convinced of his innocence, misgivings exacerbated when she learns midtrial that Jacobson has been lying to her about his relationship with the victims. Meanwhile, Smith agrees to help with an inquiry into a different triple homicide being funded by the victims’ family, and embarks on a romance with a veterinarian. As the cases wear on, she begins receiving threatening notes that urge her to drop her defense of Jacobson—or die. Flaccid prose and far-fetched courtroom scenes sink the action, and Smith feels more like a series of hardened-attorney clichés than a flesh and blood character. Fans of Lupica’s superior standalone crime novels will be disappointed. Agent: Robert Barnett, Williams & Connolly. (Sept.)

James Patterson and Mike Lupica

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

Library Journal - Audio

06/10/2024

Patterson and Lupica's latest collaboration (after The House of Wolves) follows Jane Smith, a grimly determined criminal-defense attorney who has never lost a case. Jane is defending Rob Jacobson, a sleazy real estate mogul accused of murdering an entire family—Mitch and Kathy Gates and their teenage daughter, Laurel. Jane is not convinced of Jacobson's innocence, but she aggressively defends him in court. At the same time, Jane's personal life becomes more complicated. She is diagnosed with cancer, and unless she receives treatment immediately, she has only 12 months to live. In another twist of fate, she rescues a stray dog and then develops a relationship with a veterinarian. Narrator Eva Kaminsky does an excellent job of breathing life into the characters. Still, even her skilled narration can't compensate for the contrived, overblown plot and coincidences that may be a stretch for even the most loyal listeners. VERDICT Patterson's and Lupica's many fans may put up with the novel's flaws, but this is an optional purchase for most libraries.—Ilka Gordon

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: 2940178213278
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Publication date: 09/25/2023
Series: Jane Smith Series , #1
Edition description: Unabridged
Sales rank: 200,214
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