Joey's Case
Crime novel by K. C. Constantine
Joey's Case is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1980s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt town in Western Pennsylvania, modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.
Plot
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 a former coal miner, Albert Castelucci, asking Balzic to investigate the killing of his son. He feels the state police in charge of the case have botched the investigation, but when Balzic begins, he finds more puzzles than he first expected.
Publishing details and honors
It is the eighth book in the seventeen-volume Rocksburg series and was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1989.[1]
References
- ^ Perry, Elizabeth (13 April 2023). "Carl Kosak's last story…One final nail-biter by Rocksburg crime novelist K. C. Constantine". Gazette 2.0.
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Novels by K. C. Constantine
- The Rocksburg Railroad Murders (1972)
- The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself (1973)
- The Blank Page (1974)
- A Fix Like This (1975)
- The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982)
- Always a Body to Trade (1983)
- Upon Some Midnights Clear (1985)
- Joey's Case (1988)
- Sunshine Enemies (1990)
- Bottom Liner Blues (1993)
- Cranks and Shadows (1995)
- Good Sons (1996)
- Family Values (1997)
- Brushback (1998)
- Blood Mud (1999)
- Grievance (2000)
- Saving Room for Dessert (2002)
