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State's Evidence
State's Evidence
State's Evidence
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To clean up a rotten town, John Marshall Tanner goes after the city’s most powerful villain

El Gordo is a quiet little city just outside of San Francisco, with a charming town square, a few local businesses, and the most corrupt police force in the state of California. John Marshall Tanner has worked a case here before, and it nearly ended with him taking a beating. When the private detective returns to El Gordo, it will be his life on the line.
 
A new district attorney is fighting to clean up this rotten burg, and he wants Tanner’s help. One of the richest men in town killed a nobody in a hit-and-run, and the culprit is doing everything he can to buy his way out of trouble. In the old days, that would have been simple. But with the DA backing him up, Tanner will scrub El Gordo clean—no matter how much blood stains its filthy streets.
 
State’s Evidence is the 3rd book in the John Marshall Tanner Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
 
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 9, 2016
ISBN9781504021005
State's Evidence
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Stephen Greenleaf

Stephen Greenleaf got a BA from Carlton College in 1964 and a JD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. He served in the United States Army from 1967 through 1969. He studied creative writing at the University of Iowa in 1978. He wrote fourteen John Marshall Tanner books to date. Greenleaf lives in northern California with his wife, Ann.

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    Many people have compare Greenleaf to Ross MacDonald and I can see why. There is the same undercurrent of corruption and complicated familial relationships suffering from events that occurred many years before. Greenleaf has been much under-appreciated and that's a shame. I recently ordered a bunch of his Tanner novels and will be vegging out on them over the next few days.

    In this one Tanner is asked by the Deputy DA Tolson of El Gordo to help find a missing witness. Mrs. Blair reportedly had seen a local thug hit-and-run a pedestrian. Tolson wants to put this guy away. Teresa Blair has disappeared, even while being under police protection. For his own reasons her husband, James, also wants her found. The local Chief of Detectives, Grinder, has his own reasons for wanting Tanner to report to him instead of Tolson and a neighbor , Kathie, fears for Teresa's life thinking James wanted to do her harm. Then there is Wayne, the neighbor's husband, who, having found religion had been booted out of the house, but is stalking his son. And we won't even mention the feds who have their own interest in not wanting Tanner's involvement.

    Everything comes together in an ending I just didn't see coming.

    It's pretty hard not to like a book that indulges in the use of words like crepuscular and preterlogical and has paragraphs like this one: "I started to say something, then stopped. Fluto had built a life out of that warped rationalization of benevolence and it would take a better sophist than I to knock it out of him. That’s why people like Fluto are both dangerous and ineradicable. They become criminals not out of need or desperation but out of conviction, out of a premeditated, preterlogical, almost genetic determination that crime is the only honorable mode of existence, the only way to retaliate against a government and a society they assume to be alien and oppressive. The mob rises out of that psychology, but Christianity and Nazism have their roots in alienation, too. Doctrine and ritual are the sanctuaries of the outcast, and I had encountered a lot of proof of that in this case."

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