K. C Constantine
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Christmas is a crime for cop Mario Balzic, and this mystery set in a small rust-belt town is "steady entertainment for fans of down-and-dirty local color" (Kirkus Reviews).
Not everyone is in the holiday spirit in Rocksburg, PA. Especially the little old lady who just lost her life savings in a robbery-or so she says. Once the local paper begins a charity drive for the hapless victim, chief of police Mario Balzic begins to suspect the whole...
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An Edgar Award nominee's "best [mystery] yet-an understated small town tragedy handled in his level-dead-level-fashion" (Kirkus Reviews).
A young college student is found murdered in her dorm room, a blank sheet of typing paper on her stomach. The only thing chief of police Mario Balzic knows is that the girl was lonely, a nearly friendless orphan who was so quiet, so unassuming, that no one at school knew much about her. But everyone has secrets....
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From an Edgar Award–nominated author, a small-town chief of police is pushed to his limits while going up against a local crime syndicate.
The near-fatal stabbing of Armand "Fat Manny" Manditti, a numbers runner working for the local mob boss, has chief of police Mario Balzic in a bind. Neither Fat Manny nor his brother Tullio are talking, probably because they are putting together a revenge plan that will soon turn the small rust-belt town...
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K. C. Constantine returns with the long-awaited final chapter of his saga of the Rocksburg Police Department.
The police force of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, doesn't see a ton of action. With jobs and industry moving away from the small city outside Pittsburgh, Detective Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci's greatest adversaries are his negligent vacation-prone fellow officers and an older divorcee who has a habit of dancing naked on her back porch when she stops...
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In this collection of seven original baseball short stories written by an all-star lineup of writers- each of whom understands the game's lore and tactical nuances, as well as its deep roots in American life- mystery and murder take the mound. Compiled by Otto Penzler- the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop and regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery, and suspense fiction- the...