A Family Matter

A Family Matter "The last person I wanted to see again was my mother. But she turned up anyway" In this, the third book in the Max Dexter Mystery series, Max's mother returns to Hamilton after an absence of twenty-some years. Max is not anxious to meet with her — why should he after she'd abandoned him as a child? To make matters worse, Max and his assistant, Isabel O'Brien, are still in the cross-hairs of crime boss, Dominic Tedesco, who's looking to even the score. But a bigger question looms. Is his mother involved in an internal Mob war now heating up and about to explode? Now, a week before Christmas in 1947, Max and Isabel are feeling the heat from those dark forces who don't believe in "Peace on Earth". "Chris Laing's latest book, A Family Matter, is the third in his series on Hamilton private eye Max Dexter. From the first page it picks you up and drops you down into the...