A Family Matter

Name: A Family Matter
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Laura DiNunno
ISBN: 9798347360673

Author: Laura DiNunno

Series: a Lacey Stocking mystery

Narrator: Laura DiNunno

Unabridged: 2 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Red Collar Books

Published: 05/13/2025

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Private Investigators, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1948Someone wants Edwin McMasters dead. He’s old. He’s loaded. He’s a ruthless businessman. And he has three greedy adult children who stand to inherit a fortune, and the family business, when he’s gone. Is it one of them or one of his business rivals?After a brief phone call with the cranky millionaire, Lacey Stocking, one half of the Hardley A. Witt Detective Agency, reluctantly takes the case. Lacey and Hardley expect a quick meeting with their client to discuss details. Instead, they’re hauled off at gunpoint to the McMasters’ family estate to uncover who wants the old man dead. With a shadowy figure lurking about, death threats, and a missing daughter will Lacey and Hardley stop the killer before it’s too late?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brady on June 08, 2025

wow i loved this book.. beautiful, yet so frustrating at times. from the back of the book that i think describes it perfectly: "A Family Matter is a heartbreaking and hopeful exploration of love and loss, intimacy and injustice, custody and care, and whether it is possible to heal from the wounds of......more

Goodreads review by emma on December 04, 2025

it's a good sign when my only complaint about a short book is wishing it was longer. this is a spare novel in both writing and page count, and it left me wanting MORE. i came to love these characters, or at least care about them, even as they were hurting each other and making life-changing mistakes......more

Goodreads review by Terrie on June 09, 2025

A Family Matter is Complicated and Messy.... A wife and mother makes an irresistible connection... The husband and father draws a line in the sand... The young daughter is caught in the silence... Two timelines: 1982 and 2022, with forty years of living in between... Claire Lynch’s writing is lovely,......more

Goodreads review by Debra on August 08, 2025

Gripping, heartbreaking, beautifully written, hard to put down and thought provoking! A Family Matter deals with secrets, family, love, marriage, loss, and injustice to name a few. This book is told in two timelines, 1982 and 2022, and focuses on Heron a man who must tell his daughter, Maggie, who h......more

Goodreads review by Emma.catherine on January 28, 2026

HEART BROKEN 💔😭 "This is a day she has been waiting for all her life. Her chance to repay him. The one who loved her. The one who stayed." Set across two time periods, we follow the emotional story of a young wife following her heart, a husband with the law on his side, and their daughter, caught in t......more