Janeology

A legal thriller ripped from the headlines.

Karen Harrington 

Cloth hardcover 6x9” | Pages 256 | Thriller/fiction/mystery US$ 24.95 / CDN$ 26.95 | ISBN 9781601640208

Jane, a loving mother of two, has drowned her toddler son and is charged with his murder in this powerful examination of love, loss, and family legacy. When a prosecutor decides Jane’s husband Tom is partially to blame for the death and charges him with “failure to protect,” Tom’s attorney proposes a radical defense. He plans to create reasonable doubt about his client’s alleged guilt by showing that Jane’s genealogy is the cause of her violence, and that she inherited her latent violence in the same way she might inherit a talent for music or a predisposition to disease.

• “Harrington begins with a fascinating premise and develops it fully. Tom and his wife emerge as compelling, complexly developed individuals. This debut novel is as much a character study as a legal thriller.” —Booklist
• “Beautifully written, compellingly crafted ... brilliant characters.” —Donald T. Phillips, author, Lincoln on Leadership
• "A fascinating legal thriler with some paranormal elements... fast-paced and gripping as readers want to know what caused Jane to kill her son and attempt to kill her daughter." Harriet Klausner, Amazon #1 Reviewer, Senior Review Midwest Book Review
  

About the Author — Karen Harrington

Karen Harrington is a Texas native whose writing has received honors from the Hemingway Short Story Festival, the Texas Film Institute Screenplay Contest and the Writers’ Digest National Script Contest. She authored and published There’s a Dog in the Doorway, a children’s book. She lives in Plano, Texas, with her husband and two children.
 

Janeology

Karen Harrington

ISBN 9781601640208 

"Beautifully written, compellingly crafted, Janeology lures the reader into a world that few of us understand, but all of us need to know.  This affecting story, with its brilliant array of genial, selfish, troubled, and plucky characters, accomplishes a wonderful feat by revealing specific and universal truths within all families.  It will leave you wondering if the author, Karen Harrington, was peeking in the window of our own homes.”
 • Donald T. Phillips, Best-selling author of Unto Us a Child: The True Story of an American Family, Lincoln on Leadership, and twenty other books. 

Tom is certain he is living the American dream. With twins and lovely wife Jane, and a house on the beach, life couldn't be better. Until one day in June, the police tell him the unthinkable—his wife has drowned their toddler son, while his daughter clings to life in the hospital. 

In this debut novel about love, loss and family legacy, Karen Harrington deftly illustrates the ways nature and nurture weave the fabric of one woman’s life—and renders a portrait of one man left in its tragic wake. 

 
Karen Harrington
Karen Harrington is a Texas native who has been writing fiction for more than twenty years. Her writing has received honors from the Hemingway Short Story Festival, the Texas Film Institute Screenplay Contest and the Writers’ Digest National Script Contest. A graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, she has worked as a speechwriter and editor for major corporations and non-profit organizations.

She authored and published There’s a Dog in the Doorway, a children’s book created expressly for the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Foundation’s “My Stuff Bags.” My Stuff bags go to children in need who must leave their home due to abuse, neglect or abandonment. 

She lives in Plano, Texas, with her husband and two children.