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This page lists novels that feature the NYPD detective, subsequently private detective, Jackson Steeg.

 

Jackson Steeg: Novels

Family Matters

Ira Berkowitz

Justin, Charles and Company

2006

A Jackson Steeg novel.

"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. 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."
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Old Flame

Ira Berkowitz

Three Rivers Press

2008

A Jackson Steeg novel.

"Jackson Steeg isn’t an NYPD homicide cop anymore, not since the bullet he took to the lung. But Steeg’s retirement is looking anything but relaxing. After months of death threats, his ex-wife’s new flame is beaten to death outside a chichi restaurant in the Meatpacking District. When Steeg starts pulling on strings, he discovers that his old pals on the force are strangely reluctant to investigate the murder. Meanwhile, Steeg’s Hell’s Kitchen roots prove impossible to escape when a ne’er-do-well childhood friend finds himself deep in debt to a vicious mobster. Steeg’s brother, Dave, wants to help, but the only language Dave knows is violence, and soon a mob war threatens to erupt. Now Steeg’s got two factions of New York’s nastiest characters aiming for his head. Worse, every thread keeps leading him exactly where he doesn’t want to go: his own family."
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Sinners' Ball

Ira Berkowitz

Three Rivers Press

2009

A Jackson Steeg novel.

"Private investigator Jackson Steeg has a new client—his mobster brother, Dave, who’s in deep trouble after a suspicious fire in one of his warehouses leaves half a dozen charred corpses in its wake. Steeg might not approve of his brother’s ways, but blood is blood, so he doggedly chases the truth, even when the trail leads him to a diabolical serial killer haunting the grimy streets of Hell’s Kitchen - and to the realization that the answers to all of his ugliest questions lie far too close to home."
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Black Angel

Ira Berkowitz

2009

A Jackson Steeg novel.

Possibly only published electronically.

"They called her The Bride. Young, homeless, and wearing a tattered wedding dress and veil matted with grime, she floated through the streets of Hell’s Kitchen like a spectre. Until she wound up dead. To everyone, including the NYPD, she was a throwaway. But not to Steeg. Her life was a nightmare, but her death demanded justice. There had to be a balancing of the books. But with Steeg nothing is easy. His search for The Bride’s killer is filled with blind alleys and potholes, but ultimately leads him to a vast international conspiracy that almost costs him his life."
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Last updated June 2018