From THR – CSI showrunner Carol Mendelsohn has sold a show based on Thomas Perry’s suspenseful Jane Whitefield series to CBS. Craig Sweeny (Medium) will serve as writer and executive producer on the script deal, with Mendelsohn as a non-writing executive producer. CBS TV Studios and Carol Mendelsohn Productions will produce.
Perry’s series, which begins with Vanishing Act, spans six novels, all centering on Jane Whitefield, a half-white, half-Indian young woman who works as a one-person witness protection program, helping hide people who are in danger.
Book Jacket:
Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness–not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete with authentic paperwork. Jane knows all the tricks, ancient and modern; in fact, she has invented several of them herself.
So she is only mildly surprised to find an intruder waiting for her when she returns home one day. An ex-cop suspected of embezzling, John Felker wants Jane to do for him what she did for his buddy Harry Kemple: make him vanish. But as Jane opens a door out of the world for Felker, she walks into a trap that will take all her heritage and cunning to escape….
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