Family Matters (Jackson Steeg Mystery #1)
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- Synopsis
- "And on the bed, a young, naked woman with small breasts and creamy white skin lay faceup on tangled sheets. Mid to late twenties, Steeg thought. Blond hair cut fashionably short. Softly pretty. Fingernails neatly trimmed and buffed. Makeup meticulously applied. A woman careful about her appearance. A woman out of place in Hell's Kitchen." 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 year-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 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. With its edgy, urban characters--Steeg's lesbian former partner, his brother who runs a Hell's Kitchen mob, a Bible-thumping sociopath--caught in the grip of life's harshest circumstances, Family Matters is New York noir at its finest.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 251 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781932112443
- Publisher:
- Kate's Mystery Boks
- Date of Addition:
- 04/11/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Ira Berkowitz
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Jamie Yates
- Proofread By:
- Kristin Mills
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.