Robert K. Tanenbaum

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1979
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Robert K. Tanenbaum is one of the country’s most respected and successful trial lawyers and has never lost a felony case. He has held such prestigious positions as bureau chief of the New York Criminal Courts and Homicide Bureau in the District Attorney’s Office. He was also deputy chief counsel to the congressional committee investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. He taught for several years advanced criminal procedure at his alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law.

Full Series List in Order

Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi

1 - No Lesser Plea (1987)
2 - Depraved Indifference (Oct-1989)
3 - Immoral Certainty (Jan-1991)
4 - Reversible Error (Jun-1993)
5 - Material Witness (Jun-1993)
6 - Justice Denied (1994)
7 - Corruption of Blood (Nov-1995)
8 - Falsely Accused (Sep-1996)
9 - Irresistible Impulse (Nov-1997)
10 - Reckless Endangerment (Jun-1998)
11 - Act of Revenge (May-1999)
12 - True Justice (Aug-2000)
13 - Enemy Within (Aug-2001)
14 - Absolute Rage (Aug-2002)
15 - Resolved (Aug-2003)
16 - Hoax (Aug-2004)
17 - Fury (Oct-2005)
18 - Counterplay (Sep-2006)
19 - Malice (Aug-2007)
20 - Escape (May-2008)
21 - Capture (Jun-2009)
22 - Betrayed (Jul-2010)
23 - Outrage (Jun-2011)
24 - Bad Faith (Jun-2012)
25 - Tragic (Aug-2013)
26 - Fatal Conceit (Aug-2014)
27 - Trap (Aug-2015)
28 - Infamy (Sep-2016)
29 - Without Fear or Favor (Aug-2017)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • The Badge of the Assassin

  • No Lesser Plea

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 1

    Roger Karp, a handsome D.A. with an insatiable lust for justice, won't rest until he gets no lesser plea than "guilty of murder" out of a vicious assassin. Mandeville Louis killed two people in cold blood, then cleverly threw a phony crazy fit in cou...

  • Depraved Indifference

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 2

    Karp investigates a terrorist hijacking that results in the death of a member of the NYPD bomb squad and learns of powerful groups protecting the terrorists--with ties to the Catholic church, the FBI, and Israeli Intelligence...

  • Immoral Certainty

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 3

    First the rituals, then the blood, then He shall come into His power and rule in the name of Lucifer. And woe to any servant who does not bend her knee in homage.... A killer is working the streets of New York City, snuffing out the most innocent ...

  • Material Witness

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 5

    The detecting duo of Assistant D.A. Butch Karp and his pregnant wife, Marlene Ciampi, goes undercover to solve the murder of a professional basketball player, a crime that displays unexpected political and underworld ramifications. Reprint....

  • Reversible Error

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 4

    Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp, his tough-as-nails lover and colleague, Marlene Ciampi, and three maverick cops track a serial rapist and a ruthless killer through the streets of New York City. Reissue....

  • Justice Denied

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 6

    THE SYSTEM IS MURDER A diplomat is gunned down in midtown Manhattan. A girl is raped and thrown out a tenement window in Alphabet City. A Mafia muscle man is running rings around the law. A beautiful Yuppie's career is cut short with a knife. In a...

  • Corruption of Blood

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 7

    He's never lost a case, and now ace Manhattan Assistant D.A. Butch Karp is getting a crack at the biggest one of all: the reopened JFK murder investigation. But when sorid segments of the CIA and a self-serving Congress start pulling the strings of j...

  • Falsely Accused

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 8

    Battling the city on behalf of a former government employee, attorney Butch Karp finds himself working alongside his wife, Marlene, a detective specializing in domestic violence cases, when a series of shocking crimes joins their cases. Reissue....



  • Irresistible Impulse

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 9

    Butch Karp, chief of the Manhattan District Attorney's Homicide Bureau, and his private detective wife, Marlene Ciampi, find themselves the center of publicity when their two latest cases collide in a racially charged murder trial. Reprint....

  • Reckless Endangerment

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 10

    Deputy D.A. Butch Karp knows why people kill. For revenge ... profit ... survival ... pleasure. But for some, murder is beyond reason.... An elderly shopkeeper is found brutally slain in Manhattan. An undercover cop is shot to death while off d...

  • Act of Revenge

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 11

    “Tanenbaum is one lawyer who can write with the best of them.” -- Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times bestselling author of Hollywood Hills“Tanenbaum is one hell of a writer.” -- New York Post“He has become a master of this genre, and Act of Re...

  • True Justice

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 12

    For Butch Karp, chief assistant district attorney for New York County, the nightmare begins with the discovery of a newborn baby, apparently murdered, then casually discarded with the city's refuse. Goaded by the media's sensational publicity, the pu...

  • Enemy Within

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 13

    New York: The city erupts in chaos when a black man is shot in the back by an NYPD "golden boy" street cop. As chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp soon discovers, certain higher-ups would rather whitewash the truth than lose votes in the upc...

  • Absolute Rage

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 14

    As the city sizzles under the early summer sun, New York chief assistant D.A. Butch Karp and his family are happily vacationing on Long Island's north shore. Their reverie changes to horror when they learn that their beachfront neighbors, Rose and Ra...

  • Resolved

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 15

    Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp is about to confront the most vicious killer he's ever convicted, Felix Tighe, who has just escaped prison with the help of Arab terrorists. Tighe, a manipulative, clever, crazed killer is bent on seeking...

  • Hoax

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 16

    The shooting death of a rap mogul is the first link in a sinister chain ensnaring New York District Attorney Butch Karp. With his wife and daughter on a New Mexico retreat, Karp is left to fend for his teenaged sons and himself. Descending into the h...

  • Fury

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 17

    In Brooklyn, a female jogger is brutally raped; the assailants are convicted and later exonerated by the Kings County DA. Now the guilty are filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city of New York, the police, and the two Brooklyn Assistant...

  • Counterplay

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 18

    Ratcheting up the cliff-hanging action of his spellbinding New York Times bestseller Fury, Robert K. Tanenbaum pits Manhattan D.A. Butch Karp against a psychotic villain dead set on revenge. He's a political time bomb whose bid to become New York ...



  • Malice

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 19

    New York District Attorney Butch Karp, recovering from an assassination attempt that came within a few millimeters of killing him, takes on a shadowy cartel that uses terrorists to further its criminal empire while sliding the United States toward a ...

  • Escape

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 20

    In New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum's most explosive thriller yet, Butch Karp takes on a controversial defense in the courtroom, as a deadly terrorist plot unfolds in the heart of Manhattan. Claiming God commanded her to gruesom...

  • Capture

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 21

    When a rising starlet from Spanish Harlem dies from a gunshot wound in the fashionable downtown penthouse of an eccentric and famous Broadway producer, New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp and his hard-charging, crime-fighting wife, Marlene ...

  • Betrayed

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 22

    Awaiting trial in the Tombs, Manhattan's infamous criminal detention complex, is Sharif Jabbar, the demagogic founder of a Harlem mosque. Charges against his terrorist attack on the city were dismissed once, and now that the Islam convert is being he...

  • Outrage

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 23

    Robert K. Tanenbaum's electrifying new thriller, District Attorney Butch Karp battles a failure of the system, a police detective desperate to solve a case for his own ends, and a homicidal maniac who will stop at nothing to protect the truth. Months...

  • Bad Faith

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 24

    A parent’s worst nightmare sets the stage for the exhilarating new thriller in Robert K. Tanenbaum’s New York Times bestselling Butch Karp series. New York District Attorney Butch Karp has no qualms about putting David and Nonie Ellis on trial...

  • Echoes of My Soul

    From a New York Times bestselling author: An account of the murder case and coerced confession that led to the birth of Miranda rightsUnfailingly riveting (Vincent Bugliosi). It was a muggy summer day in 1963 when Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert ...

  • Tragic

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 25

    New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum takes legal suspense to dramatic new heights -- when his hero, District Attorney Butch Karp, goes up against a ruthless union leader with too much power, too many secrets, and too many enemies to ...

  • Fatal Conceit

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 26

    A CIA chief dies under suspicious circumstances before he can testify about a controversial government cover-up involving a terrorist attack on the US mission in Chechnya. Butch Karp is on the case in this exciting installment to Robert K. Tanenbaum...

  • Trap

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 27

    In the next courtroom drama in the New York Times bestselling Karp-Ciampi series, Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi get tangled up in a web of misdirection and must unravel it in time to solve a mass murder. When a tremendous blast rocks an old school...



  • Infamy

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 28

    Prosecutor Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi, return to solve the suspicious murder of a US Army colonel and battle corruption at the highest levels of the United States government in this novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Ta...

  • Without Fear or Favor

    Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi - 29

    Butch Karp and his wife Marlene Ciampi must stop a radical organization of armed militants bent on the cold-blooded murder of uniformed on-duty police officers. When a cop shoots down the son of a respected inner-city Baptist preacher, the communi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert K. Tanenbaum has published 31 books.

Robert K. Tanenbaum does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Without Fear or Favor, was published in August 2017.

The first book by Robert K. Tanenbaum, The Badge of the Assassin, was published in May 1979.

Yes. Robert K. Tanenbaum has 1 series.
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