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Author | K. C. Constantine |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | The Mysterious Press of Warner Books |
Publication date | 1999 |
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]
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]