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The Books of Robert K. Tanenbaum

I've been reading Bob Tanenbaum's books for years. The Butch Karp series brings one of the most vivid cast of characters I've ever been forced to visualize. Once you start reading this series you'll find yourself waiting impatiently for the next installment. One of the things that will keep you coming back for more is the eternal question... "What the HELL is Marlene going to do NEXT???"

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No Lesser Plea
No Lesser Plea
This is the first in the "Karp" series. It presents a fast paced story with a cast of characters straight from the zoo. Karp is the hero, a broke-kneed former college basketball star whose competitive juices led him to the prosecutor's office. He is surrounded by a semi-deranged staff of Assistant District Attorneys who blow off steam by raiding the porn section of the evidence locker and solve crimes as well as prosecute them. Violence, mystery,ribaldry and sex. This has them all!

Depraved Indifference
Depraved Indifference
Butch Karp is trying to put Croatian Terrorists behind bars for killing a bomb squad cop. There are some amazing twists of the plot, and a few that stretch credulity or are rather sudden, but the whole thing is entertaining reading, if a bit long. It also has a rather anti-climactic ending that some might find offensive (a disabled person impersonates one of the main characters and disgraces him). If you can overlook these rather minor flaws, it's a good book.

Immoral Certainty
Immoral Certainty
Assistant D.A. Butch Karp and his girlfriend and co-worker, Marlene Ciampi, fight through red tape and New York's darkest alleys hoping to solve the toughest case of their careers before it becomes the toughest test of their love. Former New York City Assistant D.A. Tanenbaum is now running for D.A. of Los Angeles. HC: Dutton.

Reversible Error
Reversible Error
The legal thriller--nobody owns this turf like Robert Tanenbaum. Reversible Error is Tanenbaum at his meanest, sharpest, and deadliest. While a serial rapist is ravaging the women of the city, a ruthless killer is slaying the city's drug lords. Assistant D.A. Butch Karp and three renegade cops are bending the rules to find the culprits--who may just be wearing blue.

Material Witness
Material Witness
A novel of murder, political coverup and corruption, by the author of Reversible Error and No Lesser Plea. When New York's top celebrity athlete is shot to death, Assistant D.A. Butch Karp and his wife/partner, Marlene Ciampi, take on an accumulation of mobsters, hitmen, big city guns and big shots.

Corruption of Blood
Corruption of Blood
Assistant D.A. Butch Karp and his wife Marlene have run into some tough cases before, but nothing could prepare them for the most notorious homicide of all--the JFK assassination! Tapped to head the congressional reinvestigation, the two uncover a 30-year-old conspiracy rooted in the government's highest levels. Now it's a race against time to find the plot's mastermind.

Justice Denied
Justice Denied
A diplomat is gunned down in midtown Manhattan. A girl is raped and thrown out a tenement window in Alphabet City. A mafia muscleman is running rings around the law. A beautiful Yuppie's career is cut short with a knife. Homicide Bureau Chief Butch Karp and his wife take on every dirty-dealing felon in the Big Apple.

Falsely Accused
Falsely Accused
From the courtrooms to the mean city streets, the bestselling author of Corruption of Blood delivers his most powerful novel yet. Butch Karp's first case after leaving the Manhattan's D.A.'s office is representing the NYC Chief Medical Examiner, fired from his job for supposed incompetence. As Karp methodically demolishes the D.A.'s flimsy case in court, he begins to suspect that the dismissal is part of a massive cover-up.

Irresistible Impulse
Irresistible Impulse
Butch, the chief of the Manhattan District Attorney's Homicide Bureau, faces the toughest legal challenge of his career, facing off against one of the most brilliant defense lawyers in America in a murder trial laced with racial overtones. Meanwhile his private detective wife Marlene has her own hands full seeking a stalker who preys on the weak and vulnerable. Their relationship will be put to the test as the pressure of the two cases mount and collide into the hottest controversy New York City has ever seen!.





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