Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds

Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
Peggy Nettleton was P.I. John Marshall Tanner's loyal secretary for over eight years, so when she calls from her new home in Seattle asking for help, he can't say no.

About to marry wealthy investment banker Ted Evans, Peggy has a problem - Ted's young daughter Nina. The beautiful model has disappeared into the seedy Seattle underworld after posing for some nude photographs.

In helping Peggy, Tanner risks reopening old wounds and rekindling old desires, and faces a journey into the shady world of pornography and human trafficking in Seattle.

As he trails Nina to her oppressor's lair, Tanner is tested as never before... but can he find her before it's too late?

Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds. A John Marshall Tanner Mystery. Mulholland Books, ISBN: 9781473624115 (August, 2016), eBook, 616 KB (ca. 304 p.), £9.99.

Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
To help an old flame, John Marshall Tanner tracks a missing model in Seattle
As far as John Marshall Tanner can tell, everyone in San Francisco is lonely, and few are lonelier than him. He's lost too many friends, either to death or distance, and there's no one he misses more than Peggy Nettleton, his beloved former secretary, who left his detective agency six years ago, and broke his heart on her way out the door. When she calls out of the blue, Tanner can tell she's in trouble -- and that means he's in trouble too.

Peggy is due to get married in three weeks, and her soon-to-be stepdaughter, Nina Evans, has disappeared. Nina worked as a model, and it doesn't take long for Tanner to discover that she was in over her head. As he combs the unfamiliar city in search of the vanished girl, he finds that his old feelings for Peggy are stronger than ever -- strong enough to get him killed.

Flesh Wounds is the 11th book in the John Marshall Tanner Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

"Assured... An absorbing tale." -- Publishers Weekly
"The Tanner series continues to be among the most emotionally and intellectually challenging in the genre. Outstanding." -- Booklist
"A superior writer." -- The New York Times on Fatal Obsession

Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds. A John Marshall Tanner Mystery. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504027434 (February, 2016), eBook, 4.3 MB (ca. 364 p.), $7.99.

Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds (1997)

From the Publisher:
Stephen Greenleaf has been called "the legitimate heir to the mantle of the late Ross MacDonald" (Chicago Tribune). The New York Times Book Review rates his John Marshall Tanner mysteries as "a first-class noir series," and praises Tanner as "funny, pointed... always perceptive."

IN A WORLD OF VIRTUAL REALITY,
THE ULTIMATE EROTIC THRILL
MAY BE MURDER
Peggy Nettleton, detective John Marshall Tanner's former lover, has come back into his life, reopening old wounds. She's supposed to marry Ted Evans, a wealthy Seattle investment banker. But Ted's daughter, a young model, has vanished after posing for some nude photos, and the wedding has been postponed. Peggy asks Tanner for help; falling once again under her spell, he sets out in search of the lost girl.

From art galleries to strip clubs, from porn kings to computer wizards, Tanner plunges into a netherworld of sex, flesh, and high-tech sleaze. And he's about to learn more than he ever dreamed about Peggy, her betrothed, and a powerful current of evil that runs through today's digital imagery.

Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds. A John Marshall Tanner Mystery. Pocket Books; ISBN: 0671007955 (February, 1997), 304 p., $5.99.

Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds (1996)

From the Publisher:
"The long-sought-after heir of Spade, Marlowe, and Archer" (San Francisco Examiner) meets the world of virtual reality in this powerful new thriller from acclaimed author Stephen Greenleaf.

"Marsh? It's Peggy."
The words strike like lightning bolts into the life of John Marshall Tanner, reopening old wounds, rekindling old desires.
The speaker is Peggy Nettleton, Tanner's former secretary and former lover, who left his life six years earlier in circumstances too painful to remember. Now Peggy lives in Seattle and is about to marry Ted Evans, a wealthy investment banker. But Peggy has a problem -- Nina Evans, Ted's beautiful young daughter by a previous marriage, is missing. The young model has disappeared into Seattle's netherworld after posing for some nude photographs. Peggy's marriage can't go forward until Nina is found. Peggy calls on her old boss for help.

Tanner travels from San Francisco to Seattle to do Peggy's bidding, half hoping to win back her heart in the process. The search for Nina takes him deep into the world of art and artifice, where he must confront the intents and purposes of a variety of individuals who traffic in female form and flesh.

From art galleries to strip clubs, from porn kings to computer wizards, Tanner trails Nina to her oppressor's lair. He will be tested as never before as he learns more than he cares to know about Peggy and the man to whom she is betrothed, and about the world of digital imagery and its capacity to generate electric evils.

Flesh Wounds is mesmerizing entertainment from a consummate writer who is also a master of thrills. This is Stephen Greenleaf and John Marshall Tanner as we've never seen them before.

STEPHEN GREENLEAF was educated at Carleton College, the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. After some years practicing law, Mr. Greenleaf began writing fiction in 1977. Flesh Wounds is his eleventh John Marshall Tanner detective novel. He is also the author of two courtroom dramas, The Ditto List and Impact. He lives in Seattle.

Stephen Greenleaf: Flesh Wounds. The daring new John Marshall Tanner Novel. Scribner's, ISBN: 0684815834 (January, 1996) 318 p., $22.00.