Robert K. Tanenbaum

Robert K. Tanenbaum is an attorney, author of crime novels, and the creator of a series of novels featuring Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, lawyers for the New York District Attorney's office.

Tanenbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the University of California and received his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law. Tanenbaum is a legal expert and media commentator. He conducts continuing legal education seminars for practicing lawyers in California, New York, and Pennsylvania.^[1]

He has been homicide bureau chief for the New York District Attorney's Office; he has reportedly never lost a felony case. From 1976 to 1978 he served as a Deputy Chief Counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. He is also a former two-term Mayor of Beverly Hills, having served on the Beverly Hills City Council from 1986 to 1994. During 1988 he appeared in the documentary, The Men Who Killed Kennedy. Most recently, he has taught Advanced Criminal Procedure at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law.

In all but Tanenbaum's last seven novels, he credits Michael Gruber, his cousin, as a collaborator, and Gruber is generally considered as being Tanenbaum's "ghost writer."^[2] Wendy Walker and Espey Jackson are acknowledged in Malice.

Works in which Michael Gruber is credited

• 1987 No Lesser Plea
• 1989 Depraved Indifference
• 1991 Immoral Certainty - Karp's girlfriend is kidnapped & recovered.
• 1992 Reversible Error
• 1993 Material Witness - Murder of a professional basketball player, causes Karp to play professional basketball. Birth of Lucy Karp.
• 1994 Corruption of Blood
• 1994 Justice Denied
• 1996 Falsely Accused
• 1997 Irresistible Impulse
• 1998 Reckless Endangerment - Roland is shot. An Arab plot to bomb the Haddassah building.
• 1999 Act of Revenge
• 2000 True Justice
• 2001 Enemy Within - A golden boy cop kills a black man and the city seethes on the edge of exploding.
• 2002 Absolute Rage - A neighbor is killed on Long Island taking the Karp's to a union battle in West Virginia.
• 2003 Resolved - Vicious killer Felix Tighe escapes from prison with the help of Arab terrorists.

Other novels

• 2004 Hoax - Karp battles Andrew Kane, the powerful would-be Mayor of New York. Jojola and Ned introduced.
• 2005 Fury - An Al Qaeda plot to bomb Times Square on New Year's Eve. Introduces Karp's distant relatives in the Brighton Beach-based Russian mob.
• 2006 Counterplay - Andrew Kane escapes from prison and puts in motion a plan to assassinate the pope and the Karp family.
• 2007 Malice - An international conspiracy to assassinate a United States Senator, and to use a University supercomputer for criminal purposes is foiled by Karp and friends. Introduces Sons of Man and the Sons of Liberty Breakfast Club.
• 2008 Escape - The Sons of Man collaborate with a new terrorist commander, "The Sheik".
• 2009 Capture - The Sons of Man continue to try to control the world working with "The Sheik". Ned proposes marriage to Lucy.
• 2010 Betrayed - Marlene defends Dirty Warren. Butch tries Sharif Jabbar from Escape.
• 2011 Outrage - A man is falsely accused of several brutal murders.

Non-fiction

• The Piano Teacher: the true story of a psychotic killer
• Badge of the Assassin

References