Flat Lake in Winter

Parts of this book read like a true crime novel, with lots of details about names and dates and police procedure. The characters were interesting and the case unfolded like an actual one would from the point of arrest then weaving through the court system. The only thing that keeps from giving this......more

PROTAGONIST: Matt Fielder, lawyer SETTING: Adirondack region, New York RATING: 3.5 WHY: Matt Fielder is a lawyer who lives in a remote cabin in the Adirondack Mountains in New York state. He struggles when he is appointed as the defense attorney for Jonathon Hamilton, a mentally challenged young man wh......more

This was an interesting book. It was written as though a third person was giving you confidential inside information on a murder case. Matt is a defense attorney, who is assigned to defend a mentally handicapped young man, Jonathon, who is accused of murdering his grandparents. The reader is given t......more

An old favorite revisited. The characters are all well drawn. Jonathan Hamilton, who is mentally slow, is found at his home which is the scene of a horrendous and bloody crime - both his grandparents were slaughtered and he's the only one there to charge with murder. Matt Fielder has spent a year se......more