Country USA Publication date 1997 Pages 216 Followed by Brushback Genre Novel | Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1997 Preceded by Good Sons Page count 216 | |
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Publisher The Mysterious Press of Warner Books Rocksburg, Pennsylvania mystery books Good Sons, Cranks and Shadows, Saving Room for Dessert, Always a Body to Trade, Brushback | ||
Family Values is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).
Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.
The novel opens with Balzic being lured out of his retirement with an offer: investigate a 17-year-old murder that just gets stranger as time passes in exchange for the title of Special Investigator, state credentials, and thirty-five dollars an hour.
It is the thirteenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.
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