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- Publisher: Unknown (2000)
- ASIN: B0028Q8QXC
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this hero!,
This review is from: Ellipsis: A John Marshall Tanner Novel (Hardcover)
This book is just another example of Stephen Greenleaf's ability to write a fast-paced, tight, suspenseful, and ultimately fulfilling mystery. If you haven't read any of his books yet, you can start here, or go back to his earlier works in paperback. Our hero, Tanner, is great...Not to uptight or politically correct...Thank goodness he's not another recovering alcoholic! He's tough, takes a lickin, but lovable too...He's got his faults, but that just makes us identify with him that much more. The plot is great (as always), steeped in current issues and events. The pages turn too fast and the end comes too quickly.. Pick up this or any of his other books. Well worth even the hard cover price.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stephen Greenleaf Delivers in Elipsis,
This review is from: Ellipsis: A John Marshall Tanner Novel (Hardcover)
John Marshall Tanner is back as the reluctant bodyguard to a driven sucessful novelist whose life has been threatened. Stephen Greenleaf lays bare today's literary world with a parade of suspects ranging from the jilted ex-husband to the soon to be fired agent, and the cross-dressing devoted fan obsessed with Chandelier Wells. But as always with Greenleaf what appears to be a simple mystery is actually a very complex character study. Tanner is still struggling from the death of his best friend Charley Sleet, commitment issues with his new love interest Jill Coppelia, and a daughter from an earlier indiscretion. An honorable and principled though somewhat rusted white knight with an Oreo addiction Tanner continues to do battle in in an unscrupulous world. After twenty years he's come to realize that "other people's problems, particularly those brought brought on by stupidity or self-indulgence, which in my experience is most of them, seem to provoke my ire more than my sympathy these days." John Marshall Tanner may decide to retire with Elipsis. If so it will be a loss to the literary world equal to John D.MacDonald's Travis McGee. Greenleaf has expertly written a wonderful tribute to a dying breed. It will prove satisfying to even the most devoted Tanner fans. Thanks for everything, Stephen Greenleaf.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Mystery With Brains,
This review is from: Ellipsis: A John Marshall Tanner Novel (Hardcover)
John Marshall Tanner, private investigator, tells his story of this case. His client is Chandelier, a super successful writer of romance novels. Her secretary is Lark. Tanner's girl friend is Coppelia. And the author surely has fun inventing names. Aside from that, he writes in clear, concise language, presents a tight plot that is well thought out. It is a book that is a pleasure to read because it is written intelligently and without the usual gimmicks. What more can one ask for? I highly recommend it.
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