PAST TENSE: A John Marshall Tanner Novel (John Marshall Tanner Mysteries)
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ISBN: 0684832496 / Publisher: Scribner, April 1997
San Francisco investigator John Marshall Tanner attempts to find out why his best friend, who also happens to be a cop, shoots a man accused of sexually abusing his daughter and why similar crimes continue to occur in other courtrooms around the city
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Tanner's relationship with Charley Sleet of the San Francisco Police Department has both personal and professional dimensions and has long been of vital importance to both men. Nothing could be more out of character than for Sleet to stand up in a civil courtroom and gun down a total stranger.Tanner's search for answers takes him deep into the heated controversy over claims of recovered memories of sexual abuse, into the darkly violent corridors of police corruption, and, most painfully of all, into the fearsome new contours of his best friend's mind.
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