The Devil's Punch Bowl by Greg Isles

Customarily I enjoy Iles' books, but this book has too much talk and not enough action for me. Constructed around a gambling boat in Nantchez, Mississippi, the young mayor of the town gets hooked into unravelling a complex web of dog fighting, murder, international money laundering that results the lives of all his family being threatened including his daughter, his parents, and his girl friend.