The Heat of Lies

Julian Palmer #2

by Jonathan Stone

Detective Julian Palmer needs help with her latest case--the murder of a well-liked husband and father--so when her mentor, a brilliant detective imprisoned for murder, is released, she reluctantly takes him on as an advisor.

295 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2000

About the author

Jonathan Stone, author of the Julian Palmer novels, is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a Scholar of the House in Fiction Writing and twice won the English Department's John Hubbard Curtis Prize for Best Imaginative Writing. He works in advertising and lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.

Reviews

[Peacejanz]

This is the second Julian Palmer mystery. She has matured since the first book and is now a Lieutenant in the detective force. In an unbelievable move, she hires Winston Edwards, the man she put in prison and the man who almost killed her years ago. She never had proof that he was the one who murdered a young girl so he only served a few years. Stone builds the tension as we are reminded of all the things Julian learned from Edwards while working for him. There is a current murder to solve and a 20 year old murder to solve. This novel muddles around more than the first and in the end, we read about Jillian making a major mistake. Good quick mystery read.

[Pamela]

Conscious Detecting

The ongoing story of Julian Palmer, as intense as always.

Imagine having someone you helped send to prison come back into your life and stay there in a close way? Imagine choosing to have that person 'enemy' close. Mysteries, old and new, parallel searches, play a big part in this second Julian Palmer thriller.

And Alyshia, a pregnant twelve-year-old. What happens to her? You may be surprised.

He'll "show her"—Edwards, that is, but you are not sure what exactly he feels he has to prove to her. Is it how good he can be, or how bad?

The results are surprisingly satisfying, and make you glad there is a third Julian Palmer thriller.

[retronerd Steinkuehler]

One of the worst books i have ever read. No character was believable; the plot-line was all over the place. One star is generous.