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A slightly sleazy divorce lawyer discovers something strange about himself: a conscience There are seven women in the courtroom, and D. T. Jones loves them all. They are women who married young, have been mistreated, and have no prospects, no hope. For them, Jones will do all he can, which isn't much. A cut-rate divorce lawyer, he specializes in default settlements-no alimony, no property, no fight. He's not good, but he's fast, and his clients ask...
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While recovering from a gunshot wound, John Marshall Tanner meets a woman worth fighting for John Marshall Tanner left most of his blood in a vacant lot on Twentieth Street, along with the body of his closest friend. Tanner and Charley Sleet shot each other at the same time-a tragic finale to a long friendship that left Sleet dead and Tanner bleeding out on the sidewalk. The EMTs saved Tanner, but he isn't sure he wants to be alive. The uncertainty...
3) Ellipsis
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Against his better judgment, John Marshall Tanner takes a job as a writer's bodyguard Somebody wants Chandelier Wells dead. After years churning out bestselling bodice-rippers, she's the best-known author in San Francisco, and she's no stranger to receiving threatening letters. But the most recent ones seem different. They feel real. Ms. Wells knows her life is in danger, and the only man capable of protecting her is John Marshall Tanner. Tanner...
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John Marshall Tanner protects a friend from a gang of white supremacists in Charleston In his long career as a private eye, John Marshall Tanner has stared down a great many evils, but even he cringes at the thought of turning fifty. So when the invitation arrives for his twenty-five-year college reunion, Tanner bites at the chance to feel young again. He expects a weekend of nostalgia, but he will be lucky to get out alive. At the reunion, Tanner...
5) Death Bed
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The search for a dying millionaire's son leads John Marshall Tanner to a case of domestic terrorism Maximilian Kottle spent all his life fearing death. When he eventually developed cancer, he thought the disease might prove a disappointment. He was wrong. Dying is far worse than he had imagined. With less than a month to live, the wealthiest man in San Francisco calls on private detective John Marshall Tanner to fulfill his final wish: He wants to...
6) Grave Error
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Investigating a corporate crusader, John Marshall Tanner runs headlong into personal tragedy When corporations misbehave, Roland Nelson brings them to heel. The most powerful consumer advocate in the country, he's ruthless in exposing cover-ups, especially when the safety of the American people is at stake. But the white knight of the American consumer has secrets of his own, and someone is making him pay. Nelson is being blackmailed, and unless his...
7) Impact
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A legal battle turns violent in the aftermath of a tragic plane crash The fog is thick as SurfAir 617 readies to land. Onboard, a mother consoles her daughter, two children reminisce about Disneyland, flight attendants flirt with each other, and two lovers agonize over their infidelity. None of them know they are minutes from death. Then SurfAir 617 drops out of the sky, the pilots blinded by the fall, and explodes onto the runway. Only eighteen of...
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Back on his family farm, John Marshall Tanner investigates a murder that hits very close to home It's been thirty years since John Marshall Tanner, private eye, returned to Chaldea, and he hasn't missed the farm-three hundred acres of thin topsoil and ratty growth-any more than he's missed his family. There's his sister, Gail, worn down by decades of trying to do the right thing; his brother Curt, wallowing in depression ever since his son, Billy,...
9) Beyond Blame
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John Marshall Tanner must outwit an expert in insanity to reveal the truth behind a woman's brutal murder
Dianne Renzel's parents, a kind old Swedish couple, have just sold their business and are planning to use some of the money to purchase a car for their only child. But when their daughter is found murdered in her home, her flesh cut to ribbons by a madman's blade, they'll need to buy her justice instead. The police investigation quickly stalls,...
10) Book Case
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To save a small publishing company, John Marshall Tanner searches for an anonymous scribe John Marshall Tanner has spent most of his life avoiding parties-an easy feat for San Francisco's most introspective private detective. Nevertheless, when one of his closest friends, publisher Bryce Chatterton, finds himself in desperate need of a private eye, Tanner joins him at the party thrown to announce Periwinkle Press's latest publication-but there's little...
11) State's Evidence
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To clean up a rotten town, John Marshall Tanner goes after the city's most powerful villain El Gordo is a quiet little city just outside of San Francisco, with a charming town square, a few local businesses, and the most corrupt police force in the state of California. John Marshall Tanner has worked a case here before, and it nearly ended with him taking a beating. When the private detective returns to El Gordo, it will be his life on the line. ...
12) Blood Type
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John Marshall Tanner dives into San Francisco's roughest neighborhood to avenge a fallen friend John Marshall Tanner, PI, is a drinking man, and he prefers to imbibe in the comfort of a nameless San Francisco bar. Tanner has just one friend there, a social crusader named Tom Crandall who has just discovered that his wife, a celebrated chanteuse, is having an affair with one of the city's most powerful men: Richard Sands. Sands is a ruthless corporate...
13) Toll Call
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John Marshall Tanner will go above and beyond to protect his secretary from a stalker John Marshall Tanner finds his secretary slumped over on the sofa, her arm draped across her face. This private eye has seen enough death that, for a moment, he thinks Peggy Nettleton has been murdered. Fortunately, after a moment's panic, he realizes she has simply dozed off. Tanner has worked alongside Peggy for eight years, and if something happened to her, it...
14) Flesh Wounds
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To help an old flame, John Marshall Tanner tracks a missing model in Seattle As far as John Marshall Tanner can tell, everyone in San Francisco is lonely, and few are lonelier than him. He's lost too many friends, either to death or distance, and there's no one he misses more than Peggy Nettleton, his beloved former secretary, who left his detective agency six years ago, and broke his heart on her way out the door. When she calls out of the blue,...