Shadow Jack: The Hunt for Jack Reacher Series

by Diane Capri

406 pages, Hardcover

Published April 14, 2026

About the author

Bestselling author Diane Capri is a recovering lawyer. She’s a snowbird who divides her time between Florida and Michigan. An active member of Mystery Writers of America, Author’s Guild, International Thriller Writers, and Sisters in Crime, she loves to hear from readers and is hard at work on her next novel.

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#1 Amazon Bestselling Author Diane Capri’s work is what the #1 worldwide publishing phenomenon Lee Child calls “Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too.” Margaret Maron, Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-winning MWA Past President, says: “Expertise shines on every page.” And Library Journal raves: “….offers tense legal drama with courtroom overtones, twisty plots, and loads of atmosphere. Recommended.”

Diane’s new Jess Kimball series kicked off with Fatal Distraction, opening as the #3 Bestselling Legal Thriller, behind John Grisham. Diane’s new Hunt for Jack Reacher series began with Don’t Know Jack, which garnered #1 Bestseller spots on Mystery, Hard-boiled Mystery, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths, and Legal Thriller lists both in the U.S. and U.K. Don’t Know Jack was followed by two bestselling short stories in the Hunt for Jack Reacher series, Jack in a Box and Jack and Kill. Diane’s Judge Wilhelmina Carson mysteries were praised by Romantic Times and garnered the coveted “Top Pick.” Diane’s savvy, spunky character, attorney Jennifer Lane, stars in her own romantic suspense series, which kicks off with Annabelle’s Attack.

Diane is the past Executive Vice President of International Thriller Writers, past member of the Board of the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and active in Sisters in Crime and other writing organizations. She comes to writing after a successful legal career and is married to her college sweetheart. She loves her nomadic snowbird existence preferring perpetual summer migrating from Florida to Michigan each year.

Diane says she writes mystery and suspense for the same reason she reads: to find out what happens, why people do what they do, and how to bring justice to an unjust world.Her books are translated in twenty territories. Diane loves to hear from readers. Contact her at: DianeCapri.com/Contact to receive notice of new releases, subscribe to Diane’s blog, or simply connect with her.

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some kind of magic happens when Diane Capri writes. And that magic is front and center in her “Hunt for Reacher” tales. Like her previous novels in this series, “Shadow Jack” links to a Lee Child Reacher novel (“Blue Moon”). You don’t need to have read the Reacher tale to enjoy “Shadow Jack” (but do yourself a favor and read all the Reacher novels, too). If this is all new to you, please trust me when I tell you: “Shadow Jack” is worth your hard-earned money. If you like thrilling stories packed with relatable characters, you will love this book! That goes for the entire series.

The set-up: FBI Agent Kim Otto and her partners are tasked with finding Jack Reacher—not an easy task, as any fan of Lee Child’s Reacher novels knows. Reacher is off-grid. And he likes it that way. Complicating an already daunting task is that the “trail” is 15 years old. The agents start tracking Reacher at Margrave, Georgia, the location of Child’s very first Reacher novel (“Killing Floor”). Somehow, (magic, remember) Capri makes that 15-year gap serve the story. It’s so well-written it brings those now 15-years older characters to us fresh—interesting, and captivating. And, always, moving along behind the scenes, Jack Reacher is shaping events, motivating friends and frightening enemies. Don’t sleep on these.

[Betsy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kim Otto and Reggie Smithers can’t go anywhere without Cooper seemingly orchestrating what happens when they get there and telling them what to do about it. Even the simple act of stopping at a truck stop to get something to eat is impossible to do without becoming involved in theft, embezzlement, murder, warring mobs, FBI informants, and, of course, trailing right behind Reacher as he seems to set up the situation that Otto and Smithers need to finish and clean up. Really enjoyed this next Otto/Smithers/Gaspar adventure. Incredible story of mob versus mob versus mob; each one handling a different portion of the trucking industry on the East Coast and each one wanting all of it. Looking forward to the next in this great series since I have now recovered from being up all night reading and drinking lots and lots of coffee.