@book{696, keywords = {Roman Catholics, Italian Americans, Pennsylvania State Police, Serbian Americans, retirement, police}, author = {K. C. Constantine}, title = {Family Values}, abstract = {Former police chief Mario Balzic, retired in the previous two novels, is lured out by an offer: investigate a 17-year-old double-murder case in fictitious Wabash County (likely Bedford or Somerset). There is a drug deal gone bad, two bodies in a hunting cabin, and a corrupt small-town police chief in the Allegheny Mountains. Balzic gets good money, a break from his wife, and a new title: Special Investigator, with state credentials and $35 per hour.}, year = {1997}, journal = {Mario Balzic series, 13/17}, pages = {216 p.}, publisher = {The Mysterious Press of Warner Books}, address = {New York}, note = {K. C. Constantine is a pseudonym of Carl Constantine Kosak (1934— ).}, language = {English}, }