Falsely Accused

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Summary: Tension to the Last Drop
Review: Butch Karp, formerly with the DA's Office is now in private practice and is representing New York's chief medical examiner, Murray Selig, who has been fired without cause and is suing the city. Karp's wife Marlene Ciampi has also left the DA's office. She's pregnant and is looking after her small daughter. She decides to open a private detective agency in partnership with an ex-cop and specialize in protecting threatened women from abusive ex-husbands and stalkers.

Unexpectedly, the cases they're working on collide as Karp pursues his investigation of why City Hall has it in for the medical examiner and what the DA has to hide and Ciampi tries to find out why two terrified refugee children are keeping a frightening secret, and why two Guatemalan cab drivers have been murdered by two crooked cops.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

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Summary: Publisher's Weekly Review - Tanenbaum's talent is large ....
Review: Followers of Tanenbaum's intelligent 1970/80's-set series (Corruption of Blood etc.) featuring married lawyers, Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi will find that the author's punchy style perfectly suits his latest three-ring crime spectacle. Tanenbaum's talent is large, and so are his characters. These assets, along with a shot of genuine compassion for the troubles of children, enable him to just pull this one off. If readers won't quite believe the shockingly unconventional resulution, they'll still be affected by it, leaving them eager to know where this heroic family of crimefighters goes from here

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Summary: Kirkus - electrifying page turner ...
Review: Kirkus Reviews: "blistering novel electrifying page turner" Butch Karp has left the Manhattan D.A's office, but not the legal hot-seat, as this blistering novel of endless Big Apple corruption and coverups makes abundantly clear.Butch's client - a client he takes on over the howls of his firm's colleagues, who prefer to hold their star litigator over the heads of their own handpicked enemies - is ex-Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Murray Selig, tossed out of office on trumped-up charges so risible that the Mayor and D.A. Sanford Bloom have to have somehting else in mid - something pretty dire. While Karp is gathering the ammunition to destroy the D.A.'s defense witnesses, his wife, Marlene Ciampi, also on the lam from the D.A.'s office, is fighting off her pushy friend, high-flying reporter Ariadne Shipenagel - busy working on a story of the shakedown of three New York cabbies who fortuitiously died in police custody - long enough to set up her own agency serving women who need help enforcing protective legal orders against strangers or sadists or former lovewrs who are stalking them. Ciampi's highly effective vigilante tactics - heaven help the stalker she gets her teeth into - give Tanebaum's a shot of welcome humor to counterbalance Ciampi's involvement with Isabelle and Hector, a pair of wary regugee kids somebody has dumped at tough Mattie Dusan's Women's Shelter. Amazingly, Tanenbaum manages to pull all four cases together - Selig's civil suit against the Mayor and the D.A., Stupenagel's investigation of the police shaekdown, Ciampi's anti-stalking campaign and the sorry tale of Isabella an Hector - and even finds a surprising new role for Karp and Ciampi's precocious seven-year old daugther Lucy.After tossing Karp into the treacherous deeps of the Kennedy assassination (CORRUPTION OF BLOOD, 1995) Tanenbaum proves that his meticulous homework on questions of legal procedure and the best Chinese restaurant for an off-the-record conversation can turn the most preposterous conspiracy of his own into an electrifying page-turner.

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Summary: Another winner for Butch and Marlene!
Review: Tanenbaum takes three seemingly unrelated events and brings them all together for a satisfying, if somewhat disturbing end. I would grant that the plot as a whole is not altogether plausible in the real world, but for fiction was quite enjoyable. I was left a little wide-eyed at the part Lucy ( The Karp's daughter) played in the end, after all she is only seven. Even with these minor complaints I would still highly reccomend this book. Tannenbaum has drawn some great characters. I look foreward to the next Butch and Marlene book.
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Summary: Mystery lover's ideal book
Review: The first half of this book is kind of slow going until the three separate story lines start coming together. The second half zips along pretty good. I agree with one of the other reviewers...I was surprised and a little dismayed in the part that seven year old Lucy played in the end. Leaves a person with a lot to think about.

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Summary: Controversial resolution
Review: The first half of this book is kind of slow going until the three separate story lines start coming together. The second half zips along pretty good. I agree with one of the other reviewers...I was surprised and a little dismayed in the part that seven year old Lucy played in the end. Leaves a person with a lot to think about.

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Summary: Mystery lover's ideal book
Review: This book has EVERYTHING for the mystery lover - interwoven plots, snappy dialogue, narrative flow, memorable characters and a great ending, consistent with the story lines. I had never read Tanenbaum, but found the book at a rummage sale. He moved me right into his fictional world with the first page.

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Summary: great book, but really
Review: this book is a fun read but one detail really bothers me. Marlene is 6 months pregnant with twins. now what women in this condition could do the physically demanding actions she does in this book. plus what woman would jepordize their potential life.

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Summary: Still waiting!
Review: This was our 1st Robert Tanenbaum's novel. We found we were waiting for the suspense as the title would suggest. We found it rambling on at times and hard to pick up. Maybe we have to read the previous Karp/Ciampi series and it would let us to get to know the characters better instead of just jumping in like the middle of a movie and try to guess who is who. The title and brief summary captured our attention then we felt let down by the end.

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Summary: every book just gets better and better!
Review: Wow what a book! I really enjoyed it! Tanenbaum is just a great author! This guy wants to meet him in person!