Jilliane Hoffman
International Bestselling Author
Relentless. Razor sharp. Impossible to put down.
Jilliane Hoffman‘s books are a master class in legal and psychological suspense. Inspired by the experiences of a seasoned prosecutor and crafted with the intensity of a born storyteller, her thrillers dive deep into the dark heart of crime, where justice is never simple and the truth is not easy to define. With pulse-pounding twists, morally complex characters, and chilling realism, her novels are totally addictive.
Beware: Once you start, there is no turning back.
“…explores chillingly dark places…”
-San Francisco Chronicle on Retribution
“A tense legal tale…a little bit James Patterson, a little bit John Grisham.”
-NY Daily News on Retribution
“A nasty, exciting scenario!”
-Chicago Tribune on Retribution
“An incredibly readable tale of personal horror, thrills and vengeance…”
-Guardian on Retribution
“a gripping, well-crafted suspense story… so sharp it has to be read in the shortest time possible.”
-Sunday Express on Retribution
“A genuine page turner”
-Sunday Telegraph on Retribution
“Combines the gruesome precision of Patricia Cornwell, the courtroom savvy of Linda Fairstein and the Miami setting of Edna Buchanan.”
-Publishers Weekly on Last Witness
“All the ingredients of the high concept thriller: violence, action, romance, political intrigue and even a touch of humor.”
-Booklist on Last Witness
“…as gratifying as an episode of Law & Order: SVU, with sympathetic victims, heroic yet troubled police detectives, and a flawed but motivated task force dedicated to rescuing abducted children. It’s impossible not to finish the book once started.”
-Associated Press on Pretty Little Things
“Jilliane Hoffman writes with an authenticity born of personal experience. Her courtroom scenes throb with vivid realism… Plea of Insanity will keep you on the edge of your seat as the jury brings in their surprise verdict. You will want to be there when they do.”
-Bookreporter.com on Plea of Insanity
“Guaranteed to follow in the bestselling footsteps of Cornwell, Reichs and Slaughter”
-Guardian on All The Little Pieces
“Gripping, well-crafted suspense…a belter of a book”
-Sunday Express on Retribution
“Hoffman writes like an angel. Outstanding!”
-Independent on Sunday on Retribution
“The plot twists and turns and the tension never lags!”
-Daily Express on The Cutting Room
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Retribution
For eighteen months an elite task force in Miami has been hunting a brutal serial killer who has earned the macabre nickname “Cupid” for the way he kills his victims. Nine women are dead and two are missing as the city is terrorized by a vicious phantom who targets beautiful women partying in Miami’s glitzy nightclubs. When a suspect is finally apprehended in what looks to be a slam dunk case, it’s now up to Major Crimes hotshot Assistant State Attorney C.J. Townsend to prosecute, get the conviction and secure the ultimate penalty: death.
But as C.J. works up the case alongside FDLE Special Agent Dominick Falconetti and City of Miami homicide detective Manny Alvarez, she is confronted with a nightmare from her own past that has come back to haunt her.
Forced to reckon with long-buried trauma as the world watches and a media maelstrom erupts in Miami, C.J. must answer a question that until this case she’d never before had to consider as a prosecutor: Will she seek justice—a duty she has taken a solemn oath to uphold—or will it be retribution?
A C.J. Townsend novel, #1 in the series.
Last Witness
Three years after the shocking trial that gripped the world and saw a brutal, sadistic killer sent to Florida State Prison’s death row, another serial killer is terrorizing Miami. But this one is different. To those in law enforcement charged with hunting human monsters that seemingly select their victims at random, the gruesome murders are particularly unnerving. Because this monster targets cops.
But not just any cops…
As City of Miami Homicide Detective Manny Alvarez and FDLE Special Agent Dominick Falconetti pursue a vicious killer who has locked in on their own kind, they soon discover the chilling link that exists among the Black Jacket’s victims: Three years ago they all worked the same case.
Some secrets can’t stay buried, even after they’ve seemingly gone to the grave. But for Miami Major Crimes prosecutor C.J. Townsend, who is counting the days until convicted killer William Rupert Bantling’s execution, she is determined to make sure that is exactly where they remain.
A C.J. Townsend novel, #2 in the series.
The Cutting Room
City of Miami Detective Manny Alvarez knows the body of a beautiful Florida college student found in a dumpster is not an isolated event. He recognizes the brutality and fears the student’s abduction and murder might only be the latest in a string of killings that have taken place around the country.
Assistant State Attorney Daria DeBianchi, a rising star in the Miami Dade State Attorney’s Office, works the case too, hoping it will be the one that makes her career. It will―but for all the wrong reasons.
Manny and Daria’s only lead is notorious serial killer William Bantling, who alarmingly claims they should be looking for more than one murderer in the student’s chillingly brutal death. However, in exchange for the truth about a sinister underground society that considers murder a game to be played, Bantling wants off death row.
C.J. Townsend is the prosecutor who put Bantling behind bars. She lives far, far away under a false identity, struggling to build a new life and forget the horrors of her past. However, C.J. will soon learn that there is no disguise that she can wear that can hide her from that past, and nowhere far enough for her to run from the human monsters that will stop at nothing to silence her forever.
A C.J. Townsend novel, #3 in the series.
Pretty Little Things
Thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson is the middle child in a home police are already too familiar with. Her mother works too much and her stepfather favors his own blood over another man’s problems—namely Lainey and her wild older sister, Liza. So when Lainey doesn’t come home from a night out with friends, her disappearance is initially dismissed by the local police as just another disillusioned South Florida teen running away from suburban drama and an unhappy home life.
But FDLE Special Agent Bobby Dees, who has headed up the Department’s difficult Crimes Against Children squad for more than a decade, is not quite so sure. Nicknamed “The Shepherd” by colleagues, he has an uncanny ability to find the missing and bring them back home— dead or alive. Haunted by the still-unsolved disappearance of his own daughter, Bobby recognizes the gut feeling that tells him Lainey is no runaway. A search of her computer and a talk with her best friend reveal Lainey was involved in a secret internet relationship, spawned over a chat room, and nurtured through untraceable messages. Bobby fears she may be the victim of an online predator, and when chilling hand-painted portraits of other possible victims are mailed to a local television station, he realizes she may not be the only one.
The faceless monster from cyberspace, who has gone to remarkable lengths to stay invisible, now seeks a captive audience. And it is Bobby Dees he wants watching. Can Bobby win this deadly game of cat and mouse, one involving the most prolific killer he has ever encountered? And will he be able to save Lainey and the others before it is too late?
A Bobby Dees thriller, #1 in the series.
Plea of Insanity
Some fear madness. Others choose it.
Miami Assistant State Attorney Julia Vacanti is a prosecutor who can hold her own in a courtroom full of good old boys. Assigned to a hectic trial division with an ornery judge, just getting through the day can be a challenge. When she is asked by the Division Chief of Major Crimes himself to second seat a murder case that could make or break her career, she doesn’t hesitate to jump on board.
The defendant is a successful surgeon. The victims are his wife and small children. The plea is not guilty by reason of insanity. The perfect father and husband, Dr. David Marquette, seemingly just snapped that night.
Or did he?
The defense claims schizophrenic delusions and auditory hallucinations drove him to slaughter his entire family. The state contends Marquette’s insanity defense is the carefully fabricated work of a deviant psychopath, crafted to disguise murders that were calculated and cold-blooded.
If convicted, Marquette faces the ultimate penalty: death. If found insane, he could eventually walk free. To bring a killer to justice, Julia will have to venture into the mind of madness herself, embarking on a journey into her own past – something she has struggled to forget for fifteen years. This will lead her to confront a future so chilling, she’s not sure she wants to face it…
All the Little Pieces
Faith Saunders is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect sister. She’s loved and admired, and even envied, by all who know her.
What happened one night, on a dark and deserted road in the middle of absolutely nowhere with no one around to bear witness to a self-preserving, flawed decision made in a split-second moment, will change that consensus. One night will change…everything.
As Faith drives home in the pouring rain, having had a few too many, lost on an isolated road, a disheveled young woman appears out of nowhere, pleading for help. With her four-year-old daughter, Maggie, asleep in the backseat, Faith refuses to let the stranger in. But it is what she sees next—the horror she watches unfold from the safe, dry confines of her car—that will haunt her forever.
When the missing-person posters go up, the guilt begins to consume her every thought. Then the girl's body is discovered and Faith’s all-too perfect life unravels. It turns out Maggie wasn't asleep that night. But, unlike her mother, the four-year-old is not afraid to speak up. Maggie's testimony leads to an arrest, but only Faith can identify a second man who was at the scene that night on that dark and deserted road.
Faith, the perfect mother, wife and sister who fell from grace, has one chance to convince a jury of what happened and redeem herself. If she fails, two murderers will go free—two men who have killed before and who will undoubtedly kill again.
And they know exactly where to find Faith and her family…
About Jilliane Hoffman
Jilliane Hoffman is an international bestselling author renowned for gripping legal suspense thrillers that have captivated readers across the globe. Her novels have soared to the #1 spot in multiple countries, earning her a dedicated international fanbase and critical acclaim. Before turning to fiction writing as a novelist, Hoffman lived the high-stakes world she now writes about. She earned her law degree from St. John’s University School of Law in New York, interning at the Queens County District Attorney’s Office and for a Supreme Court justice at the Kings County Criminal Court in Brooklyn while in law school. Upon graduation she relocated to Miami, Florida to serve as an Assistant State Attorney in the State Attorney’s Office where she prosecuted violent felonies including sexual battery, robbery, narcotics trafficking, organized crime, money laundering and homicide in one of the nation’s most challenging and diverse legal arenas. During her time with the SAO she was assigned to the specialized Domestic Violence Unit and the Legal/Extradition Unit. Her pursuit of justice continued as the South Florida Regional Legal Advisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), where she worked alongside FDLE special agents on complex criminal investigations including homicide, narcotics trafficking, crimes against children, money laundering and organized crime. In her capacity as RLA, Hoffman co-wrote Florida’s first laws protecting communities from sexual predators and sexual offenders as part of the Public Safety Information Act legislation, requiring that predators and offenders be registered with law enforcement and be subject to community notification of their presence. Her novels have been inspired by the cases that she worked during her extensive time in law enforcement, the defendants she prosecuted, and the innocent victims she tirelessly sought justice for. Victims whose lives were forever changed, sometimes in an instant, by the cruel brutality of an intentional criminal act. It was the successful prosecution of a violent serial sexual predator who had randomly assaulted two young sisters as they walked home from middle school that seeded the idea for Hoffman’s first thriller, Retribution. The plot took several years to develop into a novel in her head, eventually compelling Hoffman to quit her job as Regional Legal Advisor to try her hand at story-telling. The predator whose barbarity inspired a thriller was ultimately convicted of multiple armed sexual batteries and is currently serving seven consecutive life sentences.