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A string of brutal home invasions terrorize the city. An Irish tune always accompanies the blood and chaos. There are no witnesses and no apparent motive; but, the families must be linked in some fashion. To isolate the killers, Charlie Taylor again lives up to his name: Crazy Charlie.The death of the young teenage girl, in one of the homes, haunts the homicide detective. Is this the reason he refuses to consider a child and family life? No matter: his refusal means the love of his life is prepared to walkThe tension escalates when his best friend, a Roman Catholic priest, is charged with murder and faces the death penalty. Although the entire Homicide Squad can't believe he is a killer, the evidence is overwhelming.Number 3 in the series. READERS' FAVORITE rated this a 5 star and stated:It should be the best crime thriller of the year……Christian Sia

Readers' Favorite declares this a "e;must read' series and the book a 5 STAR novel.A maniac promises if the riddle embedded in four 30 second sound bites is solved, they will find him. He calls himself Robin Hood because he will be collecting body parts from the rich and distributing to the poor. Our protagonist, detective Charlie Taylor, begins with his first mistake: treating the message as a harmless hoax.The year is 2021, and Dr. Max's Nobel Prize winning innovations, truth serum and memory probe, are the primary interrogation tools for the revised justice system. The system promotes the death sentence as the most efficient way to control those who won't play by the rules.A kaleidoscope of issues burst onto the scene making logic and clear thinking a struggle: Robin Hood appears able to kidnap with ease; what is the source of his knowledge? During a prison transition there is a misuse of Dr. Max's innovations; have innocent men been executed? Charlie, the Chief and the Judge are each caught in their own romantic vortex, with Charlie in the most turmoil.The solution to Robin Hood appears to lie in the most unlikely sector: a mentally retarded young man and a young woman diagnosed as a disorganized schizophrenic. What will a truth serum or mind scan reveal from these two sources? How can a skewed vision of reality help?In the end, Charlie has to demonstrate why he achieved his nickname: Crazy Charlie.

If guilt or innocence is assured and doubt no longer exists, why not execute?New legislation demands death rows be cleared—execute or release. These radical changes in the criminal justice system become possible because of the innovations of one Dr. Max Armstrong. His science allows for the retrieval of memory streams; events are relived and put on public display.The logs of a detective, Charlie Taylor, provide readers with an unobstructed view of this system's struggles as well as his own fallacies. Crazy Charlie, as some of his colleagues cautiously refer to him, gets an unexpected promotion and begins tracking two different serial killers: the Five Star Couple (who murder in high-class hotels) and Horny Harry (a rapist with an inappropriate name).When death row is processed, mass executions reveal anomalies in the memory scan interrogation process. Memory banks contain multiple copies of the same event. Are these various memory streams different versions of the same incident? Have innocent men been executed?Tension mounts when Dr. Armstrong gets charged with statutory rape, a capital crime; it appears he can beat the new science and associated interrogations. Charlie becomes the last resort for solving the riddle of Armstrong and his pending execution.In the upper echelons of the justice system, a decades-old affair threatens to reignite. In the meantime, one drunken night appears to have destroyed Charlie's chances with an attractive medical technician.