Beyond Blame

By Stephen Greenleaf

Book Overview

"Readers who like their private-eye novels witty, literate, and properly balanced between misanthropy and compassion will find Stephen Greenleaf's BEYOND BLAME exactly to taste." NEWSWEEK Psychologist Dianne Renzel has been brutally butchered in her own bed. The evidence points to her husband, Lawrence Usser, a brilliant law professor, whose speciality is the successful use of the insanity defense for a variety of unsavory clients. Now Dianne's parents have hired Tanner to make sure Usser doesn't use his customary fancy legal footwork to skip the rap for his own wife's murder. But as Tanner digs into the case, assumption after assumption gives way to question after question, and soon it's nearly impossible to know who is guilty and who is beyond blame.... From the Paperback edition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394541154
• ISBN13: 9780394541150
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Is the Insanity Plea a Real Excuse for A Crime?

This is a great page-turner and mystery. It is intelligent and literary, while at the same time containing a lot of sex and violence. The mystery deals with the insanity plea and whehter it is a real excuse for a crime.

A mystery Book for Serious Readers

I always enjoy Greenleaf's books. They are page-turners for serious readers on vacation who want to have fun and not feel guilty or wasteful. This book takes place in Berkeley and pits the Private Eye extraordinaire, Tanner, against some seedy attorneys, crazy hippies, and a varied cast of characters as he tries to track down a scissors murderer. Sounds good? It is!