Blood Mud

Crime novel by K. C. Constantine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1999
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Blood Mud
AuthorK. C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1999
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages375
ISBN0-89296-647-5
OCLC39458968
Preceded byBrushback 
Followed byGrievance 
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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]

Reception

A review by January Magazine calls the Blood Mud "Constantine's best yet," praising the complex story and rich dialogue.[7] Publishers Weekly comments on the "pitch-perfect dialogue", describing it as "beautifully developed and enigmatically resolved."[8]

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