Flat Lake in Winter
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Chosen as recommended summer reading by The New York Times Book Review.
Deep in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains sits a mansion, its image reflected perfectly on the still water of Flat Lake. Inside that estate are the savagely murdered bodies of a wealthy elderly couple.
All evidence points to Jonathan - their mentally handicapped twenty-eight-year-old grandson - but Matt Fielder, his appointed defense lawyer, isn't convinced. While Fielder is pretty sure Jonathan committed the killings, Jonathan's childlike understanding of the world renders it nearly impossible for him to have done it out of greed or malice. Now Fielder must fight the prosecution's campaign for the death penalty, but as he scours Jonathan's past for anything that will help their case, he uncovers a cache of dark family secrets that turn the case in a shocking and unexpected new direction.
When his first novel, Felony Murder, was published, Publishers Weekly called Klempner "a writer to watch." Now, Klempner is better than ever - that rare novelist with both an insider's knowledge of the world he writes about, and a talent for intelligent, compelling storytelling.
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Joseph T. Klempner. (2016). Flat Lake in Winter. 1 New Word City, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Joseph T. Klempner. 2016. Flat Lake in Winter. New Word City, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Joseph T. Klempner, Flat Lake in Winter. New Word City, Inc, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Joseph T. Klempner. Flat Lake in Winter. 1 New Word City, Inc, 2016.
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Chosen as recommended summer reading by The New York Times Book Review.
Deep in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains sits a mansion, its image reflected perfectly on the still water of Flat Lake. Inside that estate are the savagely murdered bodies of a wealthy elderly couple.
All evidence points to Jonathan - their mentally handicapped twenty-eight-year-old grandson - but Matt Fielder, his appointed defense lawyer, isn't convinced. While Fielder is pretty sure Jonathan committed the killings, Jonathan's childlike understanding of the world renders it nearly impossible for him to have done it out of greed or malice. Now Fielder must fight the prosecution's campaign for the death penalty, but as he scours Jonathan's past for anything that will help their case, he uncovers a cache of dark family secrets that turn the case in a shocking and unexpected new direction.
When his first novel, Felony Murder, was published, Publishers Weekly called Klempner "a writer to watch."...
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All evidence points to Jonathan - their mentally handicapped twenty-eight-year-old grandson - but Matt Fielder, his appointed defense lawyer, isn't convinced. While Fielder is pretty sure Jonathan committed the killings, Jonathan's childlike understanding of the world renders it nearly impossible for him to have done it out of greed or malice. Now Fielder must fight the prosecution's campaign for the death penalty, but as he scours Jonathan's past for anything that will help their case, he uncovers a cache of dark family secrets that turn the case in a shocking and unexpected new direction.
When his first novel, Felony Murder, was published, Publishers Weekly called Klempner "a writer to watch." Now, Klempner is better than ever - that rare novelist with both an insider's knowledge of the world he writes about, and a talent for intelligent, compelling storytelling.
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January 4, 1999
A death-row lawyer weighs the risks of taking on a potentially indefensible case of a slow-witted man accused of murdering his grandparents in this absorbing, tough-minded thriller from New York attorney Klempner (Change of Course). Among law-enforcers in remote Flat Lake, N.Y., word is that the case against Jonathan Hamilton is "an absolute lock": a clear trail of blood, hair and footprints implicates the man-child in the stabbing deaths of his sleeping grandparents. With Jonathan's apparent confession, "meateating" DA Gil Cavanaugh announces he'll seek the death penalty, despite Jonathan's borderline retardation. So when former Legal Aid lawyer Matt Fielder inherits Jonathan's defense, he has his work cut out for him. The momentum shifts when Fielder, somewhat unconvincingly, becomes romantically involved with Jonathan's "drop-dead gorgeous" sister, who reveals Jonathan's long history of sleepwalking. Is it possible that Jonathan killed his grandparents in his sleep? If so, will a sleepwalking defense save him from death row? Klempner's delicate meditations on legal and moral responsibility, and his riveting depiction of capital case warfare, make this novel stand out from the pack of plot-driven legal thrillers. His low-key, folksy style is occasionally mannered, especially when he adopts the objective jargon of a police report or waxes poetic about the charms of Flat Lake. But readers will be moved by the plight of the bewildered defendant and challenged by the "full-fledged psychodrama" arising from possibly unconscious acts. Agent, Bob Diforio.
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