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K.C. Constantine
Full Series List in Order
A Rocksburg Novel
1 - The Rocksburg Railroad Murders (1972)2 - The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself (1973)
3 - The Blank Page (1974)
4 - A Fix Like This (1975)
5 - The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982)
6 - Always a Body to Trade (1983)
7 - Upon Some Midnights Clear (Aug-1985)
8 - Joey's Case (Apr-1988)
9 - Sunshine Enemies (Apr-1990)
10 - Bottom Liner Blues (May-1993)
11 - Cranks and Shadows (Feb-1995)
12 - Good Sons (Feb-1996)
13 - Family Values (Feb-1997)
14 - Brushback (Mar-1998)
15 - Blood Mud (Apr-1999)
16 - Grievance (Jun-2000)
17 - Saving Room for Dessert (Aug-2002)
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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The Blank Page
- 1974
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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 ...
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A Fix Like This
- 1975
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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...
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The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
- 1982
- / Police Procedural
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K.C. Constantine’s Mario Balzic is one of those police chiefs so close to his people that nothing moves or even sits still in his town without his knowing how and why. His town is Rocksburg, a small coal mining town in western Pennsylvania wher...
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Always a Body to Trade
- 1983
- / Law Enforcement
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Police Chief Mario Balzic's sixth case: there's a new mayor in Rocksburg, PA, one of those simplifying self-righteous amateurs bent on law and order who can't leave anything alone. His calls never stop, even trapping Balzic in his refuge at Muscotti'...
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Upon Some Midnights Clear
- Aug-1985
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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...
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Joey's Case
- Apr-1988
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Mario Balzic has been dodging Albert Castelucci for months. There are only so many things a cop can say to a man whose only son has been shot to death. But Castelucci doesn't want Balzic's sympathy. He doesn't care that the death occurred in Westf...
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Sunshine Enemies
- Apr-1990
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Rocksburg Police Chief Mario Balzic must probe a tangle of reluctant witnesses, local mob figures, and a not-so-holy minister when a brutal murder occurs in the parking lot of a controversial pornography shop...
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Bottom Liner Blues
- May-1993
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BIG TROUBLE IN A SMALL TOWN With its shut-down mines and restive white-ethnic, blue-collar inhabitants, Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, is in the midst of hard times. And no one has it tougher than its own police chief, Mario Balzic--working hours longer...
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Cranks and Shadows
- Feb-1995
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This is the final book in the acclaimed Mario Balzic series. Balzic has been told to lay off five more staff in his already skeletal department. But he feels the town needs protection, and he is willing to run a private army to achieve this....
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Family Values
- Feb-1997
- / Police Procedural
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When a 17-year-old murder case rears its head, Balzic hears a variety of stories about a drug deal gone wrong and two bodies in a cabin. The fading, twisty trail leads him to a corrupt small-town police chief, now immobilised by a stroke....
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Saving Room for Dessert
- Aug-2002
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For former Air Force veteran and ex-mall security guard William Rayford, making the cut as Rocksburg's first African American cop fulfilled one of his life's ambitions, even though it sometimes still gives him a case of the Steel City Blues. Rayford ...
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Another Day's Pain
- Apr-2024
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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 Pi...
