Review: SEEKING JUSTICE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2011
AUTHOR CHARLES SHEA has created great characters beginning with "DEFENDING EVIL".In "THE SHRUNKEN HEAD MURDERS", readers are given a back-story of protagonist Detective Lieutenant Tom Brickler, Atlanta Police Homicide Unit.  We had a glimpse of him in "DEFENDING EVIL".  In this exciting and suspenseful novel we get to know he is originally from Boston, and after his service as a U. S. Navy SEAL, he began his career as a Boston Cop.  After ten years of marriage, he and his wife realized the love had disappeared, and parted friends.  He joined his Navy SEAL buddy, Lew Gordon in the Atlanta Police Department, Homicide Unit.  The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia's son, an Marine Corps Lieutenant returns from Afghanistan with severe PTSD, and is soon charged with a gruesome murder.  He is found "NOT GUILTY" by reason of Insanity and is hustled off to a country-club mental hospital.  Soon, the attractive female attorney who defended him is murdered and her body left with a grotesque mark by the killer.  Two more women are murdered, one an attorney in the same law firm as the first victim..  Brickler & Gordon make an arrest, who turns out to be a copy-cat killer. Then another lawyer in the same firm is murdered in exactly the same way as the three previous victims.  The pressure is on to catch a serial killer.AUTHOR CHARLES SHEA allowed Attorney Travis Knight from "DEFENDING EVIL" to make a cameo appearance, and with his smooth style brings Detective Lieutenant Brickler front-and-center, and you just admire the heck out of him.  We meet his new love, Nicki, also a Homicide Detective.  We learn more about his partner, Detecitve Lew Gordon.  We meet a 10 year old orphan named Eddie Calderon, coached in boxing by Brickler.Suspects in the "SHRUNKEN HEAD MURDERS" come to the fore-front, each hyping your interest, each ending in a dead-end.  Brickler finally gets the evidence to prove his last suspect's guilt, and yet you get the feeling someone is getting away with murder.  This is a fast-paced and exciting read and an excellent follow-up-second-novel by Author CHARLES SHEA.  I cannot wait for the next Lt. Tom Brickler novel.  I don't know Charles Shea, but I love his writing style.FIVE STARS for this very low priced Kindle Edition!  I would have paid much more and said it's well worth the price.Michael PhelpsAuthor