“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.Her name is Jane Smith. But to friends and foes, she's Jane Effing Smith.Why? Because she's the best criminal defense attorney in the Hamptons - the elite world of New York's rich and infamous. Because she's as good an investigator as she is a lawyer. Because she's tough. She's strong.As Jane is preparing to defend a high-profile client accused of a triple homicide, she's also hired to revive a cold case - a cluster of unsolved murders.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.Then another bombshell lands: a devastating medical diagnosis. Terminal. She's got a year to live.But first, she has a trial to win. Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.