Family Values (novel)

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Family Values
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Author K. C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1997
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages216
ISBN 0-89296-545-2
OCLC 34772318
Preceded by Good Sons  
Followed by Brushback  

Family Values [1] is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt 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. [2]

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References

https://www.fantasticfiction.com, w. (2019). K C Constantine. [online] Fantasticfiction.com. Available at: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/k-c-constantine/ [Accessed 14 Apr. 2019]. [3]

Good Sons by K.C. Constantine. (1996, February 1). Retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2176688.Good_Sons [4]


  1. Constantine, K. C. (1998). Family values (Warner Books ed.). New York: Warner Books. ISBN   0446605948. OCLC   38587320.
  2. "The Rocksburg Series in Order - K.C. Constantine - FictionDB". www.fictiondb.com. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  3. [anvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/13219/modules anvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/13219/modules].{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Good Sons".