- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Dutton; 1st edition (Feb 5 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0525941681
- ISBN-13: 978-0525941682
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,909,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The dynamic crime-solving duo of Butch Karp and his feisty wife, Marlene Ciampi, is back, and this time they have an extra set of brains: their 7-year-old daughter, Lucy. Falsely Accused is Robert K. Tanenbaum's eighth book in this ongoing series featuring Butch and Marlene as they uncover big-city misdeeds, sleaze, and corruption. In this edge-of-the-seat thriller, Butch is working as a litigator for a New York law firm, defending a bigwig client named Murray Selig, who was recently fired as chief medical examiner. The circumstances surrounding Selig's dismissal are questionable to say the least, and very soon a veritable hot pot of political wrongdoings is exposed. Meanwhile, Marlene is busy burning the candle at both ends--she's a full-time mom to the precocious Lucy, and she also heads a detective agency specializing in the protection of battered women--here she encounters more troubles. Tanenbaum brilliantly blends together several subplots and mininarratives--what is the secret of the two refugee children? What are the mayor and D.A. hiding? What is the story behind the deaths of several New York cabbies? Tanenbaum convincingly (and amazingly) pulls together these separate plots into a gripping conclusion.
Falsely Accused is more than just a suspenseful thriller--it is a fascinating exploration of legal and courtroom procedures, recounted in scrupulous detail. Fans of Butch and Marlene (and Lucy!) will not be disappointed.
From Publishers Weekly
Followers of Tanenbaum's intelligent, 1970s-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. After years on New York City payrolls, both attorneys have quit for private work?Karp for a top firm and Marlene, after keeping house for a while, to start a detective agency with her burnt-out ex-cop pal Harry Bello. For his first case, Karp represents Manhattan's Chief Medical Examiner as he sues to get his job back plus damages after he has been fired by the mayor working in tandem with Karp's old nemesis, D.A. Sanford Bloom. Marlene finds her new challenge in the schoolyard where her seven-year-old daughter, Lucy, plays. When a young mother ask Marlene's help in stopping a stalker, Marlene's sleuthing leads her to a Lower East Side women's shelter where Lucy befriends two traumatized children and insists that her mother help them. The plot curve, unsurprisingly to those who know the series, is tossed by regal but ever-difficult journalist Ariadne Stupenagel, Marlene's pushy college buddy, who's digging into the suspicious suicides?while in police custody?of three gypsy cabbies. What she unearths is improbably connected to both Marlene's and Karp's cases. The links among these three very dissimilar narrative threads strains credulity, but 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 resolution, they'll still be affected by it, leaving them eager to know where this heroic family of crimefighters goes from here.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Tension to the Last Drop,
By Vesta Irene (the Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Falsely Accused (Paperback)
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
5.0 out of 5 stars
every book just gets better and better!,
This review is from: Falsely Accused (Paperback)
Wow what a book! I really enjoyed it! Tanenbaum is just a great author! This guy wants to meet him in person!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Still waiting!,
By Ashtin Enterprises/mysteries4you/books4you (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Falsely Accused (Paperback)
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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