Deadly Personal Book

Justice, by Dan Mahoney. B-plus
Purchasedas a cassette book from audioeditions.com.
Brian and Cisco, two NYPD cops, go on vacation with their families to Florida. Cisco comes into Brian's room after about a week and shows him the New York Post. There are two separate stories, one taking place in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn, where drug lords were tortured to death. The person who did it left a note each time-one for the hotel with some money to recompense them for the bloody mess, one for the police challenging them to catch him, and one to a favored police beat reporter at the New York Post. The ones to the reporter are always signed "Justice", and of course the reporter prints them. The police and the public personally aren't sorry to see these drug lords killed. In each case, Justice includes a list of the people the drug dealer dealt with, part of what he gets from the torture, and the police are able to clear cases as well. But Brian and Cisco become convinced that the killer is an insider, a cop, or is getting information from an insider. Brian and Cisco must do the job of catching this man, whom others know must be stopped, but whom they privately appreciate for clearing more drug cases than the NYPD has in many years. This is a thriller, action-packed. We see very little of the families of the cops, which actually is fine with me for a change. We were focused on the actual crime rather than the romantic side relationships of the cops. I will look for other books by this author.