• 12 Months to Live

  • Jane Smith has a year to live, unless they kill her first
  • By: James Patterson, Mike Lupica
  • Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
  • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (490 ratings)

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12 Months to Live

By: James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
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Publisher's summary

“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.

©2023 James Patterson and Mike Lupica (P)2023 Little, Brown & Company

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A little disappointing

I really enjoyed it in the beginning but there were too many loose ends in the ending.

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A little convoluted. Hard to connect or keep up the characters. It was good, not great. The narrator seems to be rushed at times. Not putting the emphasis where it was needed.

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So interesting different and what I really like

Love this the reader is amazing the plot and the story just right please come back with part 2

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ABSOLUTELY GREAT

Great story full of twists & turns. Very Suspenseful from beginning to end. #1 BEST book I’ve read in a very long time !!!

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I can’t wait for the next one!

I really hope they write a sequel to this book. It was such a great story, and the minute it ended. I wanted to read the next book in the series.

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Worth the listen

The woman who read on Audible added so much to the sarcasm and suspense. She was a perfect Jane. Liked the story but the high number of suicides crushed the 5th Star

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Excellent Story!

Patterson and Lupica make a great team! Excellent plot with a few twists to keep you intrested!

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Fantastic read!!!

I love the characters, the plot, the humor, the intensity…
Can’t wait for a sequel! Any chance of a movie or series????

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All over the place

A little hard to keep up with as it went back and forth between characters. I did enjoy main character Jane.

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