Butch Karp Series

29 primary works • 29 total works
Roger “Butch” Karp, Criminal Courts Bureau chief, and Marlene Ciampi, assistant District Attorney starting in 1970s New York City:

Books from 1987-2003 ghostwritten by Michael Gruber.

Book 1

No Lesser Plea
3.85
· 1914 Ratings · 124 Reviews · published 1987 · 18 editions
When crafty Mandeville Lewis's method of robbing l…
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Book 2

Depraved Indifference
3.87
· 922 Ratings · 64 Reviews · published 1989 · 3 editions
Karp investigates a terrorist hijacking that resul…
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Book 3

Immoral Certainty
3.96
· 836 Ratings · 58 Reviews · published 1991 · 8 editions
New York. A world of mean streets, where a killer …
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Book 4

Reversible Error
4.07
· 1708 Ratings · 36 Reviews · published 1992 · 15 editions

Book Four of the bestselling Butch Karp legal t…

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Book 5

Material Witness
3.99
· 724 Ratings · 35 Reviews · published 1993 · 17 editions
A novel of murder, political coverup and corruptio…
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Book 6

Corruption of Blood
3.87
· 775 Ratings · 51 Reviews · published 1995 · 19 editions
When Congress reopens the investigation into the J…
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Book 7

Justice Denied
3.93
· 871 Ratings · 41 Reviews · published 1994 · 18 editions
Homicide Bureau Chief Butch Karp and his dedicated…
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Book 8

Falsely Accused
4.01
· 932 Ratings · 58 Reviews · published 1996 · 18 editions
Battling the city on behalf of a former government…
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Book 9

Irresistible Impulse
4.00
· 922 Ratings · 43 Reviews · published 1997 · 16 editions
Butch Karp, chief of the Manhattan District Attorn…
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Book 10

Reckless Endangerment
4.01
· 1198 Ratings · 42 Reviews · published 1998 · 7 editions
Deputy D.A. Butch Karp knows why people kill. For …
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Book 11

Act of Revenge
4.02
· 783 Ratings · 35 Reviews · published 1999 · 21 editions
"The most interesting pair of characters in the su…
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Book 12

True Justice
4.04
· 1062 Ratings · 44 Reviews · published 1999 · 20 editions
District Attorney Butch Karp and his pistol-packin…
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Book 13

Enemy Within
3.91
· 690 Ratings · 32 Reviews · published 2001 · 22 editions
When a black man is shot multiple times in the bac…
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Book 14

Absolute Rage
3.99
· 1077 Ratings · 73 Reviews · published 2002 · 29 editions
New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenb…
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Book 15

Resolved
3.94
· 695 Ratings · 42 Reviews · published 2003 · 9 editions
Manhattan ADA Butch Karp returns in this fifteenth…
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Book 16

Hoax
3.89
· 865 Ratings · 46 Reviews · published 2004 · 13 editions
The shooting death of a rap mogul is the first lin…
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Book 17

Fury
3.92
· 807 Ratings · 43 Reviews · published 2005 · 9 editions
In Brooklyn, a female jogger is brutally raped; th…
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Book 18

Counterplay
3.93
· 639 Ratings · 46 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions
He's a political time bomb whose bid to become New…
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Book 19

Malice
3.89
· 740 Ratings · 64 Reviews · published 2007 · 5 editions
Barely escaping an assassination attempt, New York…
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Book 20

Escape
3.92
· 881 Ratings · 72 Reviews · published 2008 · 10 editions
In New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tan…
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Book 21

Capture
3.99
· 587 Ratings · 60 Reviews · published 2009 · 6 editions
When a rising starlet from Spanish Harlem dies fro…
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Book 22

Betrayed
3.97
· 500 Ratings · 54 Reviews · published 2010 · 7 editions
From the dark fantasies of a sexual underworld to …
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Book 23

Outrage
3.93
· 596 Ratings · 53 Reviews · published 2011 · 20 editions
Robert K. Tanenbaum’s electrifying new thriller, D…
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Book 24

Bad Faith
3.84
· 647 Ratings · 61 Reviews · published 2012 · 11 editions
A parent’s worst nightmare sets the stage for the …
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Book 25

Tragic
3.83
· 835 Ratings · 80 Reviews · published 2013 · 15 editions
In this exciting installment in the bestselling “g…
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Book 26

Fatal Conceit
3.90
· 548 Ratings · 80 Reviews · published 2014 · 16 editions
A CIA chief dies under suspicious circumstances be…
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Book 27

Trap
3.85
· 632 Ratings · 71 Reviews · published 2015 · 7 editions
In the next courtroom drama in the New York Times …
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Book 28

Infamy
3.95
· 597 Ratings · 83 Reviews · published 2016 · 8 editions
The “rock-solid” (Kirkus Reviews) prosecutor Butch…
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Book 29

Without Fear or Favor
4.09
· 669 Ratings · 81 Reviews · published 2017 · 8 editions
In the twenty-ninth novel in the New York Times be…
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