John Marshall Tanner Books in Order

What begins as a quiet inquiry into a famous consumer advocate's strange behavior becomes personal when Tanner's mentor Harry Spring is murdered. Following the trail into a decaying valley town, Tanner uncovers buried secrets, old grudges, and a family shattered by the past.

A dying San Francisco millionaire wants one last chance to see the son he lost to the upheavals of the 1960s. Tanner's search for the missing radical turns into a tense chase through politics, violence, and unfinished family business.

Tanner is hired to find Teresa Blair, the only solid witness to a hit-and-run tied to mob boss Tony Fluto. With criminals and authorities both closing in, he has to reach her before the case is buried for good.

Back in his Iowa hometown to deal with family land, Tanner is drawn into the apparent suicide of his troubled nephew, Billy. The investigation stirs up old wounds, local corruption, and the long shadow of war.

The parents of a murdered psychologist hire Tanner to make sure the accused husband, a law professor skilled with insanity defenses, does not slip free. But every answer spawns new doubts, and guilt proves far harder to pin down than expected.

Tanner's secretary Peggy Nettleton starts receiving obscene, threatening phone calls from a stranger who seems to know too much. As Tanner tries to protect her, the case turns painfully personal and exposes dangerous hungers on both sides of the line.

An anonymous manuscript lands at a San Francisco publishing house and seems to expose a real scandal at an elite school. Tanner is hired to find the author, but the search pulls him into class privilege, ruined lives, and a possible miscarriage of justice.

When Tanner's barroom friend Tom Crandall turns up dead, the police call it suicide. Tanner doesn't buy it, and his search leads from nightclubs and alleys to a chilling threat involving money, medicine, and San Francisco's blood supply.

Tanner flies to Charleston to help an old college friend facing threats from white supremacists and tensions around a high-profile case. The deeper he digs, the more he finds old betrayals, racial hatred, and history that never really stayed buried.

Asked to check out a surrogate mother for wealthy would-be parents, Tanner expects a routine background job. When the young woman vanishes two months into her pregnancy, he uncovers lies, money, and desperate people with too much to lose.

A father's plea sends Tanner to Seattle to find a missing daughter who has drifted into the world of online pornography. What starts as a search case becomes a dark look at exploitation, obsession, and how easily people disappear.

When respected police lieutenant Charley Sleet suddenly erupts into public violence, Tanner cannot believe the easy explanations. His search for the cause leads through old grief, buried memories, and a dangerous network of corruption inside the system.

Still recovering from a near-fatal shooting, Tanner befriends Rita Lombardi in the hospital. When she is murdered, he follows the case into California's strawberry country, where labor abuses, family power, and local fear make the truth hard to reach.

Hired to protect bestselling novelist Chandelier Wells after threatening notes arrive, Tanner expects a fussy bodyguard job. Then a limo bombing turns the case deadly and links her enemies to older damage in Tanner's own life.