Lamentation
Joe
Clifford
Oceanview,
Oct 7 2014, $25.95
ISBN
9781608091331
In
the frigid weather near Lamentation Mountain, New Hampshire, Jay Porter clears
out the two-hundred year old unheated farmhouse of recently deceased Ben
Saunders while thinking back two decades to the tragedy that changed his life
and that of his older brother Chris; the deaths of their parents when their car
ended in Echo Lake. Jay tries to finish
the job so he can see his son Aiden before his former girlfriend Jenny puts the
toddler to sleep.
His
boss Tom Gable informs Jay that Rob Turley wants to see him because Chris is
being held at the Ashton Police Station.
Expecting the usual drug addicted village idiot scene, Turley explains Chris
had a fight with his e-recycling Computer Solutions store partner Pete Naginis
whose mama Betty says her son vanished soon afterward. Losing his chance to see his child, Jay calls
Jenny who rips him for once again putting up with Chris’ crap. When Pete is found dead, the police suspect Chris;
but he insists to his sibling he is innocent and a throwaway hard drive
contains proof of wrong doing by a town icon who he believes either killed or
arranged Pete’s homicide, and wants him disposed of too. Jay assumes the drugs finally fried Chris’ brain.
Lamentation
is a dark relationship crime drama starring an incredible protagonist
struggling with a helpless depressed life in which his brother is the prime
cause of his lament. The keys to this riveting
bleak storyline are the cast starting with Jay whose life has been flushed down
the toilet by his constant cleaning up his addicted relative and the unexpected
but realistic climax. Not for everyone,
Joe Clifford provides a powerful New Englander.
Harriet
Klausner
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