The Preacher

The Preacher
Robert James Allison
Wings ePress, Inc
ISBN: 1-59088-334-9
Fiction, Religious Suspense
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

Charlie Chambers is a civil right lawyer. The lawyer travels where he is needed and represents mostly religious civil rights cases. Charlie’s current case is against country music superstar Carol Harmon. He is representing a group of people ran over and injured by Ms. Harmon’s driver.
While representing these clients, a strange string of events starts to occur. Carol Harmon introduces Charlie to an area known as Burning Chapel Hill. This hill contains the remnants of a church burnt to the ground in 1962. The entire congregation was murdered that day as they prayed and planned for the church’s one hundredth anniversary. No one was ever tried for this horrible crime as no investigation was ever conducted. Furthermore, this terrible act was racially motivated.
Charlie is also introduced to Tommy Trenton. Nicknamed the Preacher, Tommy is suddenly repeatedly arrested for preaching the gospel and handing out religious literature as he’s done without incident for years. Then, a man named Corey Merriman dies of an apparent suicide leaving unaccountably large quantities of money and faked ledgers.
The Preacher is a complexly woven mystery with a civil rights twist. From the very first page of this book, the reader is drawn into the racially motivated church fire and murders. Immediately, the reader wants to know the how and why of this horrible event and see justice served. Soon, however, the reader finds him or herself completely and deeply involved in a complex web of characters and coincidental events. This book is page turner from start to finish.