Best Intentions, Joseph T. Klempner
Best Intentions, Joseph T. Klempner
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Best Intentions

Author: Joseph T. Klempner

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/02/2017

Categories: Fiction, Legal


Synopsis

It starts with some innocent family fun. Writer Stephen Barrow's divorced wife, involved in a second marriage, has given Barrow 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, playfully straightens her shampoo-stiffened hair into the horn of a "unicord," and her father takes her picture. When she "moons" him and says, "Take this one!" 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, a vengeful ex-wife, a fledgling psychologist, 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.Best Intentions 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 Best Intentions (based on an actual case) unfolds, its threat becomes more and more real. This could happen to anyone. It could happen to you.

About Joseph T. Klempner

Joseph T. Klempner is a criminal defense attorney. He was formerly an undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and a legal aid attorney. He lives in Upstate New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aarti

Worth the sleep that I sacrificed reading this book! Highly recommended book. Loved the smooth ending. I like Prom’s character a lot. She is understanding, sympathetic, and very radical. Gayatri’s character is quite bold and intellectual, complementing Akshay’s maturity and calmness. Though Vikram’s......more

Goodreads review by Bandita

First let us all take a moment to admire this cover. Absolutely breathtaking. One of my favourite covers of the year! This is the story of Gayatri who works in a journal articles publishing outlet but her journal is being threatened by some extremists. She takes the help of her sister Nandini's in- la......more

Goodreads review by Ishan

There are few books that can't be kept under any bracket owing to the reason of the sheer amount of facets it encompasses. This particular novel is one such kind covering drama ,politics , emotions everything in one story. The novel begins with Gayatri trying to complete her history journals while he......more

Gayatri is thirty-two, lives with her parents and works as an editor at a historical journal. Her younger sister, Nandini recently got married to Amar, who is the son of one of the top lawyers of Delhi, Mr. Grewal. He also has an older brother, Akshay. Gayatri's parents are worried about her marriag......more

Goodreads review by Awditi

Based upon the life of rich, elite Delhiites, Best Intentions tells us the story of Gayatri, Akshay, Nandini and Amar. Gayatri, a 32-year-old bachelorette, is put under constant pressure by her family to get married since her younger sister settled down with, Amar, a boy from a well-reputed family a......more