Family scandal among the powerful, an old murder, and a daughter's search for identity keep Tanner busy. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau

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

Hired by the mob to locate the only reliable witness to a recent mob-orchestrated hit-and-run killing, San Francisco private eye John Marshall Tanner must find out if the witness, Teresa Blair, is hiding or if someone is keeping her quiet

After a thirty-year absence, San Francisco private eye John Marshall Tanner returns to his hometown of Chaldea, where he must settle matters concerning the family farm, but the sudden murder of his nephew, Billy, turns his family trip into business as usual

"Readers who like their private-eye novels witty, literate, and properly balanced between misanthropy and compassion will find Stephen Greenleaf's BEYOND BLAME exactly to taste." NEWSWEEK Psychologist Dianne Renzel has been brutally butchered in her own bed. The evidence points to her husband, Lawrence Usser, a brilliant law professor, whose speciality is the successful use of the insanity defense for a variety of unsavory clients. Now Dianne's parents have hired Tanner to make sure Usser doesn't use his customary fancy legal footwork to skip the rap for his own wife's murder. But as Tanner digs into the case, assumption after assumption gives way to question after question, and soon it's nearly impossible to know who is guilty and who is beyond blame....

"Stephen Greeleaf's John Marshall Tanner series improves with age. Tanner [is]...altogether one of the most convincing of today's private eyes." THE SAN DIEGO UNION P.I. Marsh Tanner thought he knew his secretary Peggy well. But he didn't know half as much as the phone caller, the mystery man who called Peggy at home and threatened her with mutilation if she refused to tell him her most intimate secrets and desires. And he could never have imagined that Peggy might grow to love the calls as much as she hated them. But in the treacherous, twisted days that were to follow, there was much about Peggy—and himself—that Marsh Tanner would wish he didn't know....

When publisher Bryce Chatterton acquires a manuscript brimming with sex, money, and scandal, he is certain he has a hit on his hands, but he must depend on private detective Tanner to find out who wrote this novel based on facts that could expose San Francisco's most well-kept secrets

Blood Type is Stephen Greenleaf's eighth mystery featuring hard-drinking, laconic San Francisco detective John Marshall Tanner, who has been called "the long-sought heir of Sam Spade, Marlowe, and Archer" (San Francisco Chronicle). And Tanner will need all his skills and courage to solve a case the reverberations of which could shake the country. Tom Crandall, war hero, social crusader, and Tanner's barroom confidant, lies dead in an abandoned alley in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The police call it suicide, but Tanner suspects that the affair Crandall's wife was having with millionaire corporate raider Richard Sands may have sealed Tom's fate. And as he investigates, Tanner begins to turn up suspicious clues that lead to the city's vulnerable blood supply, and to Crandall's homeless, paranoid brother, whose accusations are so wild and terrifying that even Tanner is shaken with fear. From the velvet-lined nightclubs of the Bay Area to the burned-out porn shops of the Tenderloin, Blood Type is a novel of greed and malevolence, complete with all the Greenleaf hallmarks: literate writing, satisfying characters, and crackling good dialogue. For fans both new and old, Blood Type is a mystery to chill the veins and quicken the heartbeat.

Aiding a friend who has received death threats in retaliation for his efforts on civil rights, private investigator John Marshall Tanner goes undercover as a white supremacist in South Carolina, where he discovers a closer-than-expected enemy

Performing a check on a prospective surrogate mother on the condition that she never learn who the contracting parents are, Tanner is amazed when she flees and discovers that the would-be adoptive parents harbor secrets involving incest, murder, and the family business.

Asked by old fling Peggy Nettleton to investigate the disappearance of her future stepdaughter, a model who vanished after posing for some nude photographs, detective Tanner remembers his feelings for Peggy while uncovering deadly secrets. Reprint.

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. Reprint.

While struggling to recuperate from a near-fatal gunshot wound, San Francisco P.I. Tanner befriends fellow hospital patient Rita Lombardi, and when she is brutally murdered after her release, his investigation draws him deep into the violent and corrupt world of migrant farm labor

Bodyguard to a glamorous, bestselling novelist? It's the last kind of case that San Francisco private investigator John Marshall Tanner would normally accept. But Chandelier Wells comes with a personal referral Tanner cannot refuse. For all her money and fame, Chandelier is scared. Someone is sending anonymous notes: "If you don't stop, you will die " Stop what? She says she doesn't know, and she has no time to find out before beginning the publicity tour for her new book, "Shaloon." Chandelier writes romantic suspense, but she takes on tough issues. "Shaloon" attacks the cosmetics industry, and next year's book, just finished in manuscript, dissects the luxury cruise business. Could the research for her books have made her the kind of enemies who would wish her bodily harm? Tanner's inclined to think that the lady might exaggerate her peril, but when a car bomb explodes, leaving one person dead and another gravely injured, Tanner regrets he didn't take Chandelier's fears more seriously. She has annoyed many people over the years, but who would want her dead? As Tanner begins to probe Chandelier's background, he discovers many potential suspects, including her ex-husband, a spurned lover, and a jealous writer who accuses Chandelier of plagiarism. Is one of them behind the car bomb, or is the answer even more complex and frightening? Drawn into the bizarre life of a superstar author and an investigation that threatens to go full circle and bring back demons from Tanner's past, Tanner must also deal with his own grief for a departed friend and his developing love for a very special assistant district attorney. His life is at a turning point. The future is vast andvitalizing. The present is poignant. Recently nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, mystery writing's highest honor, author Stephen Greenleaf with "Ellipsis" adds another mesmerizing chapter to one of the most intoxicatingly powerful series in all of crime fiction.