| Family Values | |
| Author: | K. C. Constantine |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | The Mysterious Press of Warner Books |
| Release Date: | 1997 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Pages: | 216 |
| 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]
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]