John D. (shunt) reviewed on 1/20/2009 + 24 more book reviews

Blood Type is Stephen Greenleafs eighth mystery featuring hard-drinking, laconic San Francisco detective John Marshall Tanner, who has been called "the long-sought heir of Sam Spade, Marlowe and Archer". And Tanner will need all his skills and courage to solve a case the reverberations of which could shake the country. Tom Crandall, a war hero, social crusader, and Tanner's barrom confidant, lies dead in an abandoned alley in San Fran's Tenderloin district. The police all it suicide, but Tanner suspects that the affair Crandall's wife was having with millionaire corporate raider Richard Sands may have sealed Tom's fate. As he investigates, Tanner begins to turn up suspicious clues that lead to the city's vulnerable blood supply,and to Crandall's homeless, paranoid brother, whose accusations are wild and terrifying that even Tanner is shaken with fear. Blood Type is a novel of greed and malevolence.

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