--- product_id: 121908241 title: "Jane Doe: A Jane Doe Thriller" price: "AED 8" currency: AED in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/121908241-jane-doe-a-jane-doe-thriller store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Jane Doe: A Jane Doe Thriller **Price:** AED 8 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Jane Doe: A Jane Doe Thriller - **How much does it cost?** AED 8 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/121908241-jane-doe-a-jane-doe-thriller) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description An desertcart Charts bestseller. A double life with a single purpose: revenge. Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes - meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven. But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her. Nothing can distract Jane from going straight for his heart: allowing herself to be seduced into Steven’s bed, to insinuate herself into his career and his family, and to expose all his dirty secrets. It’s time for Jane to dig out everything that matters to Steven. So she can take it all away. Just as he did to her. Review: Revenge done right! - Have you ever read a book that grabs you from the very beginning, drags you under and you become completely immersed in the story - even though the narrator, who is a self-described sociopath, is not a character you would usually find yourself cheering for? Well, that is what happened in ‘Jane Doe’ by Victoria Helen Stone for me. From start to finish I felt engaged in Jane’s story. Understanding and relating to her pain, her anger, her desires and her need for revenge. There is a line about halfway through Jane Doe that pretty much sums up the whole book for me: "The kill is fun, but toying with your prey is really the best part." The book is narrated by our titular Jane. She is a sociopath and is very smart having studied the people and relationships around her and learned to mimic the behaviours expected of her, making her a master manipulator. This has made for a very successful lawyer, but she has no true friendships or connections apart from her best friend Meg. Jane loved Meg more than anything else in this world as she was the only person to make Jane feel normal. However, we quickly learn that Meg recently took her life leaving Jane adrift without an emotional anchor. Jane’s rage over loosing Meg crystallising into revenge against the person she blames for Meg taking her own life: Steven Hepsworth, Meg’s old boyfriend. She takes a leave of absence from her job in Malaysia, changes her appearance, adopts a new persona and gets a job working in data entry at Steven’s company. It doesn’t take long for Steven to become attracted to the ‘new’ Jane and her façade of an insecure and vulnerable woman. The story progresses from there with Jane’s inner dialogue providing a delightfully contemptuous voice through their interactions. As the story progresses there are other characters introduced and it is interesting to see the juxtaposition in Jane’s interaction with them. We also get tantalising titbits of information about Jane's past that I am hoping will be explored further in future books. However, always central to the story is her developing plan for revenge and relationship with Steven. Overall, the story progresses without any parts feeling slow or stilted. I found the ending wrapped up maybe a tad too quickly, but still deeply satisfying. I can't remember who recommended I read 'Jane Doe' and I really wish I could so I could thank them for introducing me to this incredible book. However, I will recommend this book to whomever reads this review. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up buying the Audible version so I could revisit Jane in all her sociopathic glory. If you are more of an audio book person, the narrator Nicol Zanzarella does an incredible job with the story. 5 out of 5 stars! Review: Found myself rooting for a sociopath. - Wow. This was not my usual kind of read. Yes, I have read a few novels in the past with sociopath narrators. Michael Cox's neo-Victorian THE MEANING OF NIGHT comes to mind as one that particularly left an impression. But this is the first time that I found myself so sympathetic to a character lacking usual human feelings, guilt and conscience. It helped that Jane here was not a psychopathic killer. She had, up to the present of this book, been living a "normal", law-abiding, ordinary life, even though lacking the personality chip which would allow her to feel emotion or understand feelings and emotions of others. She's smart and observant and has trained herself, by reading, watching movies, interacting in real life with others, to almost understand the human condition. And she's not completely unfeeling. Jane had a best friend, Meg, whom one could almost say she loved. Or perhaps she loved the fact that around Meg she felt almost "normal". So when Meg became involved with a misogynistic, emotionally-abusive man, whose abuse/loving-charm cycle led to Meg's suicide, Jane takes time off from her job in Malaysia to come back to Minnesota on a mission to avenge Meg's death. Jane is more or less playing it by ear. Will she kill Steven, the hypocritical, church-going abuser? Or will she somehow destroy him personally and professionally? Neither method of revenge would cause Jane any remorse, so I just sat back in my reading chair to find out how it would all play out. This was a fascinating read. I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist but I felt as if the author had done some good homework on what it means to be a sociopath. (And it's not all evilness and cruelty, lest you be afraid to read this book.) There's also a good bit of social observation on humans in general and on the hypocrisy of many God-fearing churchgoers to be found here. I found myself liking Jane more than I would the average sociopath. (And I do know a non-criminal one personally who is very charming on the surface.) The author gives her some saving graces in her interesting relationships with a cat she adopts and with an old college boyfriend she accidentally meets up with again. It also helps that the man Jane plots revenge on shows himself to lack saving graces of his own. BTW, if you are a romance reader, you may have read this author before. Victoria Helen Stone is the pen name Victoria Dahl uses to write her darker books. As Dahl she has written many historical and contemporary romances in the past. ## Images ![Jane Doe: A Jane Doe Thriller - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ONX3S3mgL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Revenge done right! *by V***S on January 8, 2022* Have you ever read a book that grabs you from the very beginning, drags you under and you become completely immersed in the story - even though the narrator, who is a self-described sociopath, is not a character you would usually find yourself cheering for? Well, that is what happened in ‘Jane Doe’ by Victoria Helen Stone for me. From start to finish I felt engaged in Jane’s story. Understanding and relating to her pain, her anger, her desires and her need for revenge. There is a line about halfway through Jane Doe that pretty much sums up the whole book for me: "The kill is fun, but toying with your prey is really the best part." The book is narrated by our titular Jane. She is a sociopath and is very smart having studied the people and relationships around her and learned to mimic the behaviours expected of her, making her a master manipulator. This has made for a very successful lawyer, but she has no true friendships or connections apart from her best friend Meg. Jane loved Meg more than anything else in this world as she was the only person to make Jane feel normal. However, we quickly learn that Meg recently took her life leaving Jane adrift without an emotional anchor. Jane’s rage over loosing Meg crystallising into revenge against the person she blames for Meg taking her own life: Steven Hepsworth, Meg’s old boyfriend. She takes a leave of absence from her job in Malaysia, changes her appearance, adopts a new persona and gets a job working in data entry at Steven’s company. It doesn’t take long for Steven to become attracted to the ‘new’ Jane and her façade of an insecure and vulnerable woman. The story progresses from there with Jane’s inner dialogue providing a delightfully contemptuous voice through their interactions. As the story progresses there are other characters introduced and it is interesting to see the juxtaposition in Jane’s interaction with them. We also get tantalising titbits of information about Jane's past that I am hoping will be explored further in future books. However, always central to the story is her developing plan for revenge and relationship with Steven. Overall, the story progresses without any parts feeling slow or stilted. I found the ending wrapped up maybe a tad too quickly, but still deeply satisfying. I can't remember who recommended I read 'Jane Doe' and I really wish I could so I could thank them for introducing me to this incredible book. However, I will recommend this book to whomever reads this review. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up buying the Audible version so I could revisit Jane in all her sociopathic glory. If you are more of an audio book person, the narrator Nicol Zanzarella does an incredible job with the story. 5 out of 5 stars! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Found myself rooting for a sociopath. *by O***T on August 15, 2018* Wow. This was not my usual kind of read. Yes, I have read a few novels in the past with sociopath narrators. Michael Cox's neo-Victorian THE MEANING OF NIGHT comes to mind as one that particularly left an impression. But this is the first time that I found myself so sympathetic to a character lacking usual human feelings, guilt and conscience. It helped that Jane here was not a psychopathic killer. She had, up to the present of this book, been living a "normal", law-abiding, ordinary life, even though lacking the personality chip which would allow her to feel emotion or understand feelings and emotions of others. She's smart and observant and has trained herself, by reading, watching movies, interacting in real life with others, to almost understand the human condition. And she's not completely unfeeling. Jane had a best friend, Meg, whom one could almost say she loved. Or perhaps she loved the fact that around Meg she felt almost "normal". So when Meg became involved with a misogynistic, emotionally-abusive man, whose abuse/loving-charm cycle led to Meg's suicide, Jane takes time off from her job in Malaysia to come back to Minnesota on a mission to avenge Meg's death. Jane is more or less playing it by ear. Will she kill Steven, the hypocritical, church-going abuser? Or will she somehow destroy him personally and professionally? Neither method of revenge would cause Jane any remorse, so I just sat back in my reading chair to find out how it would all play out. This was a fascinating read. I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist but I felt as if the author had done some good homework on what it means to be a sociopath. (And it's not all evilness and cruelty, lest you be afraid to read this book.) There's also a good bit of social observation on humans in general and on the hypocrisy of many God-fearing churchgoers to be found here. I found myself liking Jane more than I would the average sociopath. (And I do know a non-criminal one personally who is very charming on the surface.) The author gives her some saving graces in her interesting relationships with a cat she adopts and with an old college boyfriend she accidentally meets up with again. It also helps that the man Jane plots revenge on shows himself to lack saving graces of his own. BTW, if you are a romance reader, you may have read this author before. Victoria Helen Stone is the pen name Victoria Dahl uses to write her darker books. As Dahl she has written many historical and contemporary romances in the past. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I fervently hope this is the first book in a series, because wow! *by M***D on August 9, 2018* The premise was one I simply couldn’t resist. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect, something along the line of American Psycho perhaps. And this is where we really learn of the differences between psychopaths and sociopaths, JANE DOE is the latter. It is not gory, so fear not of blood spatters and gore. But how one can see the twisted appealing ways of being a sociopath! This is a fabulously entertaining book, and quite enlightening as well. I’m sure Ms. Stone did a considerable amount of research, because I recognised a few people I had known in my life, and it explained another, and for that, I am thankful. JANE DOE is also filled with scathing comments about our hypocritical society. And JANE DOE is ingenious, clever, unique, brilliant, and oddly wickedly satisfying. I will not say one word about the plot, I think one should go in blind, and enjoy this utterly different story. It’s quite a voyage to peek into the mind of a sociopath and watch her in action: JANE DOE is told exclusively in first person from Jane’s POV, and it is riveting as we see her think, and act, and wonder. JANE DOE is superbly written, there is not one dull moment, the characters are magnificently fleshed out, the pace is sustained throughout, and it is perfectly edited: not one minuscule mistake to be found. I am so glad that I went with my gut and picked up this amazing book, which will be reread and will remain on my keeper shelf. Absolutely fantastic! 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