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Bottom Liner Blues

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Bottom Liner Blues[1]
AuthorK. C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1993
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages167
ISBN0-89296-289-5
OCLC26722159
Preceded bySunshine Enemies 
Followed byCranks and Shadows 

Bottom Liner Blues[2] is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt town in Western Pennsylvania, modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.

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 Balzic back in a police car and feeling depressed about his mother's recent death. He gets a call from a woman who thinks her husband may be out to brutally exact revenge on a truck driver with a questionable past. She wants Balzic to stop the attack, but gives him little to go on. He senses there is more coming and he is right.[3]

It is the tenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.

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  1. ^ Constantine, K. C. (May 1993). Bottom Liner Blues. ISBN 0892962895.
  2. ^ "Bottom Liner Blues". goodreads. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  3. ^ Constantine, K. C. (May 1993). Bottom Liner Blues. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780892962891.
  4. ^ Constantine, K. C. (May 1993). Bottom Liner Blues. ISBN 0892962895.