Janis K. (scrapbooklady) reviewed on 10/12/2007 + 472 more book reviews

"Act of Revenge" is part of the Karp series. This series tries to deal with the question of how a family responds to an atmosphere of danger and violence. Butch Karp is a senior official with the New York D.A. His wife, Marlene, is a private detective who specializes in protecting women from stalkers and domestic violence. Their teen-aged daughter, Lucy, is a language prodigy, speaking dozens of languages fluently which allows her the ability to penetrate the various immigrant communities of N.Y. in ways unavailable to her parents. This set-up allows these books to deal with the conflict between law and justice, the demands of work and child rearing, the moral assumptions of the established culture verses those of newcomers, men verses women and parents verses children, at a depth not usual in the average thriller. Not only is this a good read, it's also a serious read. Mr. Tanenbaum obviously knows a great deal about novel writing and has high standards. I look forward to more of his work.

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