
True Justice
(Book 12 in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series)(2000)
A novel by
Robert K Tanenbaum
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 public is screaming for blood, and Karp's boss, D.A. Jack Keegan, is listening. He has ordered the prosecution of the baby's fifteen-year-old mother for murder, intent on making a very public example of the girl. A Hispanic from a poor neighborhood, she's an easy mark for big-city bureaucracy and bigotry. It is Butch Karp's unpleasant job to see that the prosecution gives the public what it wants: a quick and thorough administration of hard-line justice.
Complicating matters further is Butch's wife, Marlene Ciampi, a private investigator who has decided to return to practicing law. Her first case takes her a few hundred miles south to a small Delaware town, where another baby has been found, its lifeless body placed in a motel dumpster by two scared kids. Marlene is representing the mother, a doe-eyed middle-class suburban teen who claims the baby was stillborn.
Under pressure from the D.A.a politically ambitious local prosecutor who is pressing to make it a case of capital murderthe infant's father is singing a different song, placing all the blame on the girl.
With Butch and Marlene squaring off on opposite sides of an increasingly incendiary national debate, things couldn't get any more tenseŠuntil a shocking turn of events puts their teenage daughter Lucy at the center of a horrifying crime. Suddenly, everything they believe in is challenged, and they are drawn into a maelstrom of big-city politics and small-town values, where justice is sacrificed to the twin gods of public perception and expediencyand Karp must struggle to salvage his self-respect, his career, and his life.
Complicating matters further is Butch's wife, Marlene Ciampi, a private investigator who has decided to return to practicing law. Her first case takes her a few hundred miles south to a small Delaware town, where another baby has been found, its lifeless body placed in a motel dumpster by two scared kids. Marlene is representing the mother, a doe-eyed middle-class suburban teen who claims the baby was stillborn.
Under pressure from the D.A.a politically ambitious local prosecutor who is pressing to make it a case of capital murderthe infant's father is singing a different song, placing all the blame on the girl.
With Butch and Marlene squaring off on opposite sides of an increasingly incendiary national debate, things couldn't get any more tenseŠuntil a shocking turn of events puts their teenage daughter Lucy at the center of a horrifying crime. Suddenly, everything they believe in is challenged, and they are drawn into a maelstrom of big-city politics and small-town values, where justice is sacrificed to the twin gods of public perception and expediencyand Karp must struggle to salvage his self-respect, his career, and his life.
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Hardback Editions
March 2001 : Hardback
| Title: True Justice (Thorndike Mystery) Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-7862-3032-0 / 978-0-7862-3032-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 2000 : Hardback
| Title: True Justice Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-7434-0589-7 / 978-0-7434-0589-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Atria Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2001 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: True Justice Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-7434-0590-0 / 978-0-7434-0590-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Pocket Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2001 : Paperback
| Title: True Justice Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-7432-0909-5 / 978-0-7432-0909-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
2001 : Paperback
| Title: True Justice Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-7434-0393-2 / 978-0-7434-0393-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
September 2002 : Audio Cassette
| Title: True Justice Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-7435-2759-3 / 978-0-7435-2759-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
January 2001 : Audio CD
| Title: True Justice Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum, Nick Sullivan ISBN: 0-7927-9984-4 / 978-0-7927-9984-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Chivers Sound Library Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
August 2000 : Audio Cassette
| Title: True Justice Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-7435-0553-0 / 978-0-7435-0553-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
July 2004 : Unknown
| Title: True Justice Author(s): Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-7435-4931-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Availability: Amazon More details... |
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