Untitled Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Project

The second project being developed under the partnership is a procedural series centered on Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery, two of Cook’s most iconic characters, who front 14 of his bestselling novels. Stapleton and Montgomery are a pair of medical examiners working in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City who see the worst of crimes committed in the city. First as colleagues, and later as husband and wife, they venture beyond their medical duties, becoming amateur detectives who look to solve crimes ahead of, and sometimes despite, law enforcement. Their marriage is shaken when Laurie becomes Jack’s boss, as Chief Medical Examiner, and Jack’s flagrant disregard for authority is now Laurie’s problem to handle.