Jay Shepherd is a writer (of thrillers), speaker, and recovering lawyer. Law & Politics magazine named him a “Top 100 lawyer in New England.” He then fled the law before they figured out their mistake. He’s the author of Firing at Will (Apress, 2011), a riveting thriller about — OK, it’s actually a manual for firing people. In what can only be described as a colossal lapse in judgment, someone made Jay the treasurer of both Crime Bake and the New England chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. No good can come from this.