Blood Mud
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AuthorK. C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1999 | |
| Author | K. C. Constantine |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Mysterious Press of Warner Books |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 375 |
| ISBN | 0-89296-647-5 |
| OCLC | 39458968 |
| Preceded by | Brushback |
| Followed by | Grievance |
Blood Mud[1] is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1990s[2] Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt town in Western Pennsylvania, modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.[3]
Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.[4]
The novel opens with Balzic again being lured out of his retirement with an offer: track down the missing guns from a local gun shop for an insurance company.[5]
It is the fifteenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.[6]
