Robert K. Tanenbaum

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp has been around New York long enough to realize that the judicial system can be dirty and cynical. But he still believes in justice....

Butch Karp's career prosecuting New York's worst criminals takes a chilling turn when a series of ghastly child murders opens a window into the city’s hellish underworld....

Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp is finally recognized for his heroic service to New York City when a group of politicians back him for the top job as Manhattan's district attorney....

Teaming up with his crime-fighting wife, Marlene, and two loyal assistants, Karp knows the only way to determine what occurred is to let the facts and the evidence lead inexorably to a just result....

A Turkish diplomat in New York City is gunned down in broad daylight, and all signs point to an ancient blood feud....

When he goes undercover to bust mobsters who have infiltrated the sports world, Butch Karp glides effortlessly from the criminal courts he dominates as a prosecutor to the basketball court....

In the eighth story of the popular Butch Karp legal thriller series, Karp and his crime-fighting wife, Marlene, struggle to protect the abused and wrongly accused from powerful enemies....

Back as head of the district attorney's homicide bureau, Butch Karp comes up against one of his most bizarre cases yet....

Butch Karp has never shied away from a case, and when Croatian terrorists hijack a plane and kill an NYPD cop in a bomb blast, he’s eager to prosecute the high-profile killers....