But what if I can find a way for him to live in misery for years? I need to get closer to find his weakest point, and if I have sex with him now, I’ll be trash. The perfect murder.īut I want to hurt him in the worst way possible. I could have flown into town, poisoned him, shot him, stabbed him, whatever, and been on my way, a complete stranger with no connection to the crime. I could have just gotten rid of him, of course. In Jane’s mind, Steven has done something very, very bad and must pay. Steven Hepsworth is a middle-manager at the company where Jane is now working.

Jane has never murdered anyone, but she doesn’t like people all that much, which is what has brought her to Minnesota. An import/export attorney stationed in Kuala Lumpur in her real life, she’s also an unapologetic sociopath.

Jane’s going by an alias while working a crummy temp job at a Minneapolis insurance company.

That boiled bunny is just as much on his head! Hey, Glenn Close made her choice, but Michael Douglas isn’t blameless. Traditionally, when women get revenge stories, the female exacting the revenge is unhinged. Much hay will probably be made over Stone taking that most male of plot devices and putting a woman in the driver’s seat. The revenge plot is as old as time and has a storied history in what is deemed as “male entertainment.” See: Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Daniel Craig’s James Bond story arc. Enter the book that women have been waiting for: Victoria Helen Stone’s psychological thriller Jane Doe. Tired of pretending that their lives are OK and that the world around them isn’t on fire. What has changed? Well, women are tired of the status quo. Women are taught from the cradle to the grave to not make waves or rock the boat or insert your favorite idiom here. It’s always been there, bubbling below the surface. The truth is women have always been angry. Pundits and talking heads will point to November 8, 2016, as the turning point, but that’s lazy. Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you’ve probably noticed women are angry-like really angry. Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone is a chilling revenge tale about a woman leading a double life in order to take down a man with a dark past.

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