Mad Mouse (A John Ceepak Mystery) »

Chris Grabenstein was the first writer hired as a result of James Patterson’s famous advertising aptitude test that ran in the New York Times when Patterson was creative director of J. Walter Thompson. He spent several years at the nation's top ad agencies. Before he started in advertising, Grabenstein also worked with Bruce Willis (among others) in some of New York’s most acclaimed improvisational comedy troupes. A member of Mystery Writers of America, he lives in New York City.

John Ceepak and Danny Boyle gets caught in a mad man’s twisted scheme for revenge.

The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

So far, Grabenstein has maintained the seriocomic tone of his promising series by working the buddy relationship with sincerity, while assigning the narrative chores to the endearing (if often dim) Danny.