cover image Family Matters

Family Matters

Joel Rosenberg. Forge, $24.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-7653-0499-5

In Joel Rosenberg's meandering Family Matters: An Ernest ""Sparky"" Hemingway Mystery, the second in the series after 2003's Home Front, Sparky takes in an inner-city teenager and is talked into becoming a deputy sheriff. The irreverent Sparky has his charms as a narrator, but readers expecting conventional crime-solving may be disappointed. Agent, Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary Agency. .