Family Matters (Jackson Steeg Mystery Series Book 1) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Family Matters is the debut novel of the award-winning Jackson Steeg Mystery Series. 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 awakens one night to find his Hell’s Kitchen tenement swarming with police. The dead body of a young woman was found in the apartment below his. 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.