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100	1		_aTanenbaum, Robert. _9675569
245	1	0	_aTrue justice /
264			_aNew York : _bPocket Books, _cc2000.
300			_a436 pages
520			_aDistrict Attorney Butch Karp and his pistol-packing wife Marlene Ciampi, the liveliest crime-fighting couple in New York, are back in True Justice. The first set of infanticides happen on Butch's a wave of gruesome incidents in which newborns are killed or abandoned by their indigent teenage mothers. The second, Marlene's case, is straight out of the a middle-class college girl and her boyfriend are indicted for first-degree murder in the death of their baby after a concealed pregnancy. The most interesting story belongs to Lucy, Butch and Marlene's teenage daughter, an incisively brilliant and complex young woman who deserves her own novel. Lucy's best friend's parents seem to have been murdered by an African furniture restorer of whose guilt Lucy is unconvinced. The real solution to the mystery of who killed the Maxwells is telegraphed well in advance, but all the crimes give Butch, Marlene, their colleagues in criminal justice, and even Lucy a chance to weigh in on the law's fault lines and the ironies implicit in what passes for justice in America. But it's Lucy's spiritual quest that provokes the book's most unusual and involving drama. Lucy's devout Catholic faith, like her prodigious talent for language (she can speak 14, but give her five days in a foreign country and that'll be 15, thank you), is a mystery to Butch, a lapsed Jew, and Marlene, who has trouble squaring her own faith with the violence that attends her job.
650		0	_aKarp, Butch (Fictitious character) _vFiction. _9675570
650		0	_aCiampi, Marlene (Fictitious character) _vFiction. _9675571
650		0	_aPublic prosecutors _vFiction. _9675572
650		0	_aTrials (Murder) _vFiction. _9674864
650		0	_aMarried people _vFiction. _9675573
650		0	_aWomen lawyers _vFiction. _9675574
650		0	_aTeenagers _vFiction. _9675018
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _vFiction. _9674828
651		0	_aDelaware _vFiction. _9675575
655		7	_aDetective and mystery fiction. _2gsafd _9674556
655		7	_aLegal fiction (Literature). _2gsafd _9674865
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