Bottom Liner Blues
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| Author | K. C. Constantine |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Mysterious Press of Warner Books |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 167 |
| ISBN | 0-89296-289-5 |
| OCLC | 26722159 |
| Preceded by | Sunshine Enemies |
| Followed by | Cranks and Shadows |
Bottom Liner Blues[2] is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt town in Western Pennsylvania, modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.
Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.
The novel opens with Balzic back in a police car and feeling depressed about his mother's recent death. He gets a call from a woman who thinks her husband may be out to brutally exact revenge on a truck driver with a questionable past. She wants Balzic to stop the attack, but gives him little to go on. He senses there is more coming and he is right.[3]
It is the tenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.
References
[edit]- ^ Constantine, K. C. (May 1993). Bottom Liner Blues. ISBN 0892962895.
- ^ "Bottom Liner Blues". goodreads. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Constantine, K. C. (May 1993). Bottom Liner Blues. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780892962891.
- ^ Constantine, K. C. (May 1993). Bottom Liner Blues. ISBN 0892962895.
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