Family Matters (Jackson Steeg Mysteries)
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ISBN: 1932112448 / Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co., April 2006
Jackson Steeg is a disgraced cop at loose ends in Hell's Kitchen, when a dead hooker shows up on his doorstep. Family matters is New York noir at its finest.
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Jackson Steeg is on the skids. He's under suspension from the NYPD for pushing his notions of fairness and loyalty a step too far, spends much of his time fighting his desire to hit the bottle while ruminating over if and how he should go back to work at his old precinct, and has found himself the unlikely custodian of a smart-talking, street-savvy thirteen your-old girl.But Steeg's life suddenly changes when he awakes one night to find his Hell's Kitchen tenement swarming with police and the dead body of a young woman in the apartment below him, a woman who was the daughter of a prominent socialite murdered twenty years ago. And who was responsible for the unsuccessful investigation of the socialite's murder two decades earlier? None other than Steeg's own father, a retired NYPD straight-arrow police captain who wants nothing to do with him.Not one for coincidences, Steeg careens through the underbelly of the city to get to the truth, only to become enmeshed in a sordid mystery that goes back years and lays bare a devastating secret that threatens to destroy his own family.
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