Red Hook: A Jack Leigh­n­ter Mys­tery by Gabriel Cohen, pub­lished 2001 by St. Martin’s Press. This is the first book in a new mys­tery series fea­tur­ing vet­eran cop Jack Leigh­n­ter. The title takes its name from a South Brook­lyn neigh­bor­hood and here is the back blurb:
It’s not the dead body–Jack Leight­ner has seen hun­dred of bod­ies in his tour with the NYPD. It’s