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Family Values
by K.C. Constantine
ISBN: 0446605948
ISBN-13: 9780446605946
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Retired police chief Mario Balzic has a new job. He's working for the Rocksburg, PA Attorney General's office, and he's been assigned to a 17-year-old murder. Why? The man serving the time, Lester Walin, is innocent-that is, according to the lowlifes whose testimony originally put him away. Why are these creeps coming forward with the truth after all this time? A new respect for law and order? Guilt for putting Lester away? Or maybe for reasons a bit more personal....
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"The main characters are ugly specimens, but Mr. Constantine makes it his job to find the humanity in his unappetizing subjects and to give it a voice." -- Marilyn Stasio
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Published date: 1998
Size: 4.5 x 6.75 inches
Weight: 0.25 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Plunged into the legal morass of a 17-year-old murder case, Balzic faces a variety of cons, each offering different variations of a drug deal gone wrong, and two corpses left in a mountain log cabin. Balzic's interviews lead him to a small town police chief who carried out his own personal reign of terror over the decades--looting, raping, and murdering the denizens of his borough. In discovering the history of this monster, Balzic must now enter his very own heart of darkness.
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Family Values (Rocksburg Novels)
K. C. Constantine
Grand Central Publishing. Used - Good. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 1998. Softcover. Good condition, showing modest signs of wear. Some rubbing on cover. Cover has some wear on edges. ( more information)
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Family Values (Rocksburg Novels)
K. C. Constantine
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Family Values
Constantine, K.C
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, 1998 Paperback. Sound & nice copy, light to moderate shelf/reading wear, stamped.. Mass Market Paperback. Good/n/a. ( more information)
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Family Values (Rocksburg Novels)
Constantine, K. C
Grand Central Publishing, 3/1/1998. Mass Market Paperback. Used-Very Good. Used-Very Good; Very good condition Minor edge some age discoloration ( more information)
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Family Values
Constantine, K. C
Grand Central Publishing. March 1, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Good fictional cops don't fade away--they get another sequel. In K.C. Const antine's novel, Cranks and Shadows, Rocksburg P.A.'s police chief, Mario Ba lzic, retired. Now, in Family Values, he's bored out of his mind and itchin g for something to do. Before he can drive himself, his wife, his bartender and his friends completely nuts, Deputy Attorney General Warren Livingood arrives to make Balzic an offer: investigate a 17-year- old murder that just gets messier with every passing year in exchange for the title of Special Investigator, state credentials and thirty-five dollars an hour. ( more information)
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Family Values : a Rocksburg Mystery
Constantine, K.C
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, 1998 Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking!. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Doug Fraser . 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. ( more information)
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Family Values
Constantine, K.C
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc, 1998 Paperback. Sound & nice copy, light to moderate shelf/reading wear, stamped.. Mass Market Paperback. Good/n/a. ( more information)
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FAMILY VALUES
CONSTANTINE, K. C
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Family Values (Rocksburg Novels)
K. C. Constantine
Grand Central Publishing, 1998-03-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Edge and corner wear. Creases to cover. Creases ot spine. Pages still clean and tight. ( more information)
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Family Values
Constantine, KC
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Family Values (Rocksburg Novels Ser.)
Constantine, K. C
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Incorporated. 1998. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. ( more information)
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