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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1979
  • Latest Book:
    July 2000
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Full Series List in Order

A John Marshall Tanner Novel

1 - Grave Error (May-1979)
2 - Death Bed (Jan-1980)
3 - State's Evidence (May-1982)
4 - Fatal Obsession (May-1983)
5 - Beyond Blame (Dec-1985)
6 - Toll Call (Feb-1987)
7 - Book Case (Jan-1991)
8 - Blood Type (Sep-1992)
9 - Southern Cross (Nov-1993)
10 - False Conception (Nov-1994)
11 - Flesh Wounds (Jan-1996)
12 - Past Tense (Apr-1997)
13 - Strawberry Sunday (Feb-1999)
14 - Ellipsis (Jul-2000)

Books in Order: 16 titles

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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 t...



  • 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...



  • When his friend, police lieutenant Charlie Sleet, breaks into sudden acts of violence, San Francisco PI John Marshall must unearth the repressed memories at the heart Charlie’s corruption and vigilantism to put an end to the killing....



  • IN A WORLD OF VIRTUAL REALITY, THE ULTIMATE EROTIC THRILL MAY BE MURDER Peggy Nettleton, detective John Marshall Tanner's former lover, has come back into his life, reopening old wounds. She's supposed to marry Ted Evans, a wealthy Seattle investm...



  • SOMETIMES THERE'S NOTHING HARDER TO CONCEIVE THAN THE TRUTH Leading lives of wealth, power, and privilege, Millicent and Stuart Colbert have it all...except a child. Considering Greta Hammond as a surrogate mother, they hire detective John Marshal...



  • The past is never truly buried, or even dead. That's what John Marshall Tanner discovers at his twenty-fifth college reunion when he meets an old friend whose past has come back to haunt him with a vengeance. In the summer of '66. Seth Hartman had go...



  • BAD BLOOD They were barroom pals who talked about politics, philosophy, everything but their private lives ... until the night Tom Crandall asked detective John Marshall Tanner for help. It seems that Tom's sultry wife, Clarissa, was having an aff...



  • Brimming with sex, money, and scandal, the manuscript had all the makings of a blockbuster bestseller. And publisher Bryce Chatterton knew it, just as he knew that publishing the book was his last and only hope of keeping Periwinkle Press afloat. But...



  • TOWER TO 617. YOU'RE OFF COURSE. RETURN TO ZERO ONE ZERO. INCREASE ALTITUDE TO THREE THOUSAND... TOWER TO SURFAIR. TOWER TO SURFAIR. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? LORD JESUS. I THINK THEY'RE DOWN.... With the crash of SurfAir 617 this powerful, brill...






  • He seemed to know all about her. But he wanted to know more. Peggy had been P.I. Marsh Tanner's secretary for eight years, and he thought he knew her well. But he didn't know half as much as the phone caller, the mystery man who called Peggy at ho...



  • 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, ...



  • Berkeley, California. Birthplace of the free-speech movement. Site of campus sit-ins. Home to flower children. And now, two decades later, a city of murder. Psychologist Dianne Renzel has been killed-not just murdered, but mutilated in her own bed...



  • 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 top...



  • THE LADY VANISHES It begins with a mob-orchestrated hit-and-run "accident". Now a crusading D.A. hires San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner to find the only reliable witness to the crime. A gorgeous ex-model named Teresa Blair has disappeared a...



  • Hired by dying millionaire Maximillian Kottle to locate Kottle's estranged son, San Francisco private eye John Marshall Tanner begins a quest to locate the former sixties radical who is also wanted for murder....



  • FATAL RECALL When her husband begins acting strangely, the wife of a famous consumer advocate hires San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner to find out why. Tanner is convinced the case is a simple matter of blackmail. Certainly a man like Roland ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Greenleaf has published 16 books.

Stephen Greenleaf does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ellipsis, was published in July 2000.

The first book by Stephen Greenleaf, Grave Error, was published in May 1979.

Yes. Stephen Greenleaf has 1 series.