From the New York Times–bestselling author, a thrilling true crime story of grisly murder, police corruption, and an attorney's work to save an innocent man.In 1963, Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie were just two young women living on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Then one muggy day in August, an intruder made his way into their apartment where he raped and murdered them.Months passed before the police had a suspect in custody. His name was George Whitm...

When he goes undercover to bust mobsters who have infiltrated the sports world, Butch Karp glides effortlessly from the criminal courts he dominates as a prosecutor to the basketball court. Police have found the body of a pro basketball star in a car on the edge of the city, the glove compartment stuffed with cocaine. The investigation leads to a sophisticated ring of sports fixing and drug trafficking, and Karp's own background as a college basketball standout helps him close in on the cr...

"Robert Tanenbaum's very distinguished prosecutorial background allows him to bring the raw reality of big-city true crime to his fictional crime thrillers." —Vincent Bugliosi, #1 New York Times –bestselling authorA classic, pulse-pounding thriller from the legendary Robert K. Tanenbaum, Act of Revenge plunges the popular author's long-running series protagonists, New York City Chief Assistant District Attorney B...

Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp is finally recognized for his heroic service to New York City when a group of politicians back him for the top job as Manhattan's district attorney. But a series of cases involving vigilante murders begins to reveal the true motives of those civil servants standing by his side. It's Karp versus the dirty city in one of Tanenbaum's most revealing and caustic legal thrillers—a stunning indictment of civil corruption and overreach.

**From a New York Times–bestselling author and the "Joseph Wambaugh of the judicial system," comes the first three legal thrillers in the long-running series ( San Diego Tribune).A successful trial lawyer and "one hell of a writer," Robert Tanenbaum crafts his legal thrillers with authenticity and breath-taking suspense. In these first three books of the series, he introduces Manhattan assistant district attorney Roger "Butch" Karp, who struggles to remai...

From a New York Times–bestselling master with over one million copies in print: Prosecutor Butch Karp hunts a psychopath targeting the innocent.He is the Bogeyman: a remorseless monster stalking the streets of New York in search of fresh victims—his chosen prey being children.The killings are ghastly enough to shock lawyer Butch Karp, who thought he'd already seen the absolute worst of humanity in his work. So when a child abuse case and a homicide...

After many years working on some of the toughest felony cases in New York, prosecutor Butch Karp takes on one of the most notorious homicide cases in modern history when the US Congress invites him to become legal counsel to the Congressional committee charged to reinvestigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Teaming up with his crime-fighting wife, Marlene, and two loyal assistants, Karp knows the only way to determine what occurred is to let the facts and the eviden...

In the seventh book of the popular Butch Karp legal thriller series, a diplomat's murder reveals a world of genocide and retribution.A Turkish diplomat in New York City is gunned down in broad daylight, and all signs point to an ancient blood feud. The suspected gunman is Armenian. His alleged motive is to avenge the slaughter of Armenians by Turks generations before. But prosecutor Butch Karp has never accepted the easy answer, and he soon realizes the facts of this murder are mor...

In the tenth book of the popular Butch Karp legal thriller series, Karp and family fight to stop terrorists and demagogues from splitting the city in two.A Jewish couple is assaulted and left for dead behind the counter of their deli, and anti-Israel graffiti is scrawled in Arabic above their bodies. Evidence points to a few clueless teens, but this seemingly open-and-shut case soon threatens to become a dangerous and divisive media circus. As tensions between Jewish and Muslim com...

Butch Karp's career prosecuting New York's worst criminals takes a chilling turn when a series of ghastly child murders opens a window into the city's hellish underworld. Karp and love-interest Marlene Ciampi pursue a psychopath known to his young victims as the Bogeyman, but what they find is more threatening than a lone predator. To stop the evil they unearth will take more than just courage in the courtroom; the two will need to follow a sinister trail into New York City's darkest corne...

In this "wild, exhilarating ride" from the New York Times–bestselling author, a prosecutor goes undercover—on the court—after a basketball player's murder ( Chicago Tribune).Marion Simmons is big. He's tough. And he takes a long time to die. Simmons survives the long ride through Queens, clinging to life until the car stops in an abandoned lot, and a hit man puts two bullets in his head. When the police arrive, they recognize the dead man instantl...

Three pulse-pounding thrillers in the long-running series from the New York Times–bestselling author and "Joseph Wambaugh of the judicial system" ( San Diego Tribune).A successful trial lawyer and "one hell of a writer," Robert K. Tanenbaum crafts his legal thrillers with authenticity and breath-taking suspense. Here are three books in his series featuring Manhattan assistant district attorney Roger "Butch" Karp, who struggles against an often-corr...