When his client, a homeless man accused of killing a New York City police commissioner, refuses to plea-bargain despite the overwhelming evidence against him, attorney Dean Abernathy is shocked by the odd facts surrounding the case.

Felony Murder

Literature & Fiction

Klempner, Joseph T.

United States

St Martins Pr

Unable to pay his daughter's mounting medical bills, widowed accountant Michael Goodman accidentally finds a multi-million-dollar drug stash, and when his efforts to give it to police are rebuffed, he begins to consider converting it to cash in New York City. 15,000 first printing.

Shoot the Moon

Suffering from an incurable, gradually debilitating disease, thirty-nine-year-old Jack quits his job, refurbishes his sailboat, and joins his older brother, Joe, on a voyage to tiny Walker Island, an enigmatic locale that may or may not actually exist. 10,000 first printing.

Change of Course

St.Martin's Press

Flat Lake In Winter

Matthew Fisher, a lawyer dedicated to opposing the death penalty, leaves the city for the isolation of the Adirondacks, where he defends a simple-minded orphan accused of killing his grandparents, a client who has already confessed to the crime

Flat Lake in Winter

Irreparable Damage

It starts with some innocent family fun. Writer Stephen Barrow's divorced wife, involved in a second marriage, has willingly given Barrow the desired custody of their six-year-old daughter, Penny. Father and daughter share a relationship that is tender, poignant, and funny. Their home life in a small upstate New York town is a happy and entirely wholesome one. One evening Penny, in her bath, delightedly pulls her shampoo-stiffened hair into what she thinks of as the horn of a "unicord," and her father takes her picture. When she "moons" him and says, "Take this one!" to oblige he clicks the shutter, although the roll of film was finished. Or so the mechanically challenged Barrow believed. The next day, the local pharmacy clerk using the photo machine is shocked by the snapshot, decides Stephen is a child pornographer, and calls the police, who arrest him. That is only the first step in Stephen Barrow's descent into hell. A small-town police chief basking in a "real case," a vengeful ex-wife, a fledgling psychologist who tailors her patients' responses to fit her self-serving preconceptions, a District Attorney facing re-election -- all of these and more push Barrow deeper and deeper into the depths, until everything he has is taken from him, his freedom, his belongings, and most particularly his beloved daughter. Irreparable Damage is a horror story. Not a horror story of monsters from the deep or roving homicidal psychopaths, but something much worse, something that batters at the readers' defenses. As anyone familiar with Klempner's previous books will know, he is a writer with the talent to bring his story home to his readers. As Irreparable Damage (based on an actual case) unfolds, its threat becomes more and more real. This could happen to anyone. It could happen to you!

Thomas Dunne Books

Once more, the author of Irreparable Damage combines thrills, vivid characters, and a plot that leaves the reader breathless. A Lincoln Navigator carries three well-dressed people through the barren New Jersey salt flats. The trip is uncomfortable but necessary. Their target has no phone, certainly no e-mail, and never answers his rare mail. But August Jorgenson is no country bumpkin. Before retiring, he was one of the most famous judges in the country, and only opinions like his fierce opposition to the death penalty kept him from a seat on the Supreme Court. Now his visitors, from a reality show called Trial TV, have come to enlist his aid. They are excited about an idea they have that promises to strike a serious blow against the death penalty (and boost their ratings past those of Court TV). The judge agrees to help. But as he digs into the facts of the case he becomes their enemy - an enemy who must be removed as a serious threat to their plans.

Fogbound

Minotaur Books

When a homeless drifter is fingered for the murder of the police commissioner, small-time attorney Dean Abernathy knows there is more to the case than meets the eye. Reissue.

In the hilarious, tradition of Elmore Leonard, former narcotics agent Joseph brings brilliantly to life the bungling misadventures of an upstanding citizen turned unwitting drug bitingly funny caper rich with action, irony, and originality. All his life he has stayed in the comfort zone: never taking any chances, never breaking any rules. Now, Michael Goodman, bookkeeper, father, and widower, is about to change his ways. It starts in a Fort Lauderdale parking lot, when Michael changes a flat tire on his pink rental car. Suddenly, the mild-mannered accountant, desperately trying to find a job and pay his daughter's mounting medical bills, is in possession of a load of pure, undiluted heroin. With a white-hot bag of powder and scarcely a clue, Michael leads the cops, the DEA, and one very sexy woman on a wild-goose chase through the deadly world of New York City drug dealing. It's a wild ride that might make Michael rich and might even land him in love-as long as it doesn't kill him...

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 28-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 Joseph 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.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

St. Martin's Paperbacks

Stephen Barrow thinks he has it all-or at least, all he really needs. But one day, he makes an innocent mistake-and enters a nightmare that could rob him of his reputation, his freedom, and worst of all, his daughter...SOME DAMAGE CAN NEVER BE UNDONE...Since his divorce, writer Stephen Barrow has made a new life with his six-year-old daughter, Penny-a life that revolves around silly jokes, Barbie dolls, and a bond that most fathers would envy. But all that changes when Stephen takes an innocent photo of his daughter as she plays in the tub. The picture causes a stir in the photo lab, the police are called-and suddenly, Stephen is forced to defend himself against the worst accusation a father could ever face......AND SOME STORIES CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTENFor reporter Theresa Mulholland, the Barrow case is a far cry from the human interest stories she usually covers. While she knows it's her job to stay objective, even Theresa secretly assumes that Stephen is guilty. But as she follows the case step-by-step, Theresa realizes that Stephen is not only being robbed of due process, but that he may, in fact, be totally innocent. Now, as the trial looms, the case Theresa never wanted to cover becomes the story of her career. And she will stop at nothing to help Stephen Barrow get justice-even if it costs her everything...

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Felony Murder

Shoot the Moon

Change of Course

Flat Lake in Winter

Irreparable Damage

Fogbound

Felony Murder

Shoot the Moon

Flat Lake In Winter

Irreparable Damage