Ellipsis: A John Marshall Tanner Novel - Tapa dura

In the latest installment in his acclaimed series, award-winning crime novelist Stephen Greenleaf delivers the sexiest, fastest story to date in the life of San Francisco P.I. Marsh Tanner. Author Chandelier Wells is scared. Someone is sending her notes that read: If you don't stop it you will die. Stop what? Chandelier doesn't know, or she's not telling. It's the kind of case Tanner doesn't usually accept: bodyguard to an alluring, world-famous writer. But this time he can't say no. Chandelier knows people who mean a lot to him and when a car bomb comes too close for comfort, the chase is officially on and the suspects are many. There's the jealous writer who accuses Chandelier of plagiarism, the real estate mogul she rejected, and, of course, her ex-husband. Tanner must negotiate the complex turns of Chandelier's life to find the answer. Along the way, Tanner explores his own relationships, unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn.

Stephen Greenleaf is the award-winning author of thirteen previous John Marshall Tanner novels, most recently Strawberry Sunday, for which he was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and Past Tense. A graduate of Carleton College in Minnesota, he received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives with his wife, Ann, in northern California.