Parting Shot by Jonathan Stone

Jonathan Stone writes his works while riding the commuter train from his Connecticut home to his advertising job in Manhattan. Stone's first mystery-thriller series, the Julian Palmer books, received critical acclaim and was hailed as stunning and risk-taking in Publishers Weekly starred reviews. Honing his writing abilities by developing smart and classic campaigns for high-level brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, and Mitsubishi has paid off, as Stone's first mystery-thriller series, the Julian Palmer books, won critical acclaim and was hailed as stunning and risk-taking in Publishers Weekly starred reviews. The New York Times praised him for his work The Cold Truth, describing it as bone-chilling. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a Scholar of the House in fiction writing, and the winner of the Claymore Prize for Best Unpublished Crime Novel.