Review: Ex-NYPD cop as crime solver is A1
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2013
Jackson Steeg left the NYPD with a disability pension but can't stay disabled. He hangs out with brother Dave, a minor criminal, in Hell's Kitchen, or at the local church where a former classmate is a nun who works with people at the very bottom of the social register.When faced with injustice and incompetence Steeg tends to go off the deep end and when Joanne, his nun friend, asks him to look into the murder of one of her charges, Steeg finds plenty of both. After doing his best to send the uncaring official police investigator of the murder off to get a disability pension of his own, Steeg unofficially takes over the case, which blossoms out into more than a single murder and more than someone simply preying on the helpless. It is a well-written, fast paced, excellent crime novel.