Smoke and Mirrors

In this gripping new installment in J.A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling crime thriller series, a disgraced former TV anchor dies in a suspicious car crash in remote Nevada—but her family refuses to believe it was an accident.

When Holly Holbrook is killed shortly after pursuing a decades-old media scandal, her son, Dave, and grandmother begin digging for answers, uncovering evidence she was deliberately run off the road in the Nevada desert. Their search pulls in Ali Reynolds, a former anchor turned cybersecurity executive—and one of the last people to see Holly alive.

What starts as a suspicious death quickly unravels into something far bigger: a buried murder, a powerful criminal network tied to drug trafficking, and a pattern of women silenced when they get too close to the truth. As digital forensics, hidden secrets, and relentless determination converge, the trio finds themselves facing a ruthless adversary who has spent years hiding in plain sight—and will kill again to stay that way.

Smoke and Mirrors is a high-stakes crime thriller about power, corruption, and the dangerous cost of exposing the truth.