Cranks and Shadows

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Cranks and Shadows
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First edition
Author K. C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1995
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages314
ISBN 0-89296-543-6
OCLC 31131489
Preceded by Bottom Liner Blues  
Followed by Good Sons  

Cranks and Shadows is a 1995 crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine [1] 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. [2]

The novel opens with Balzic being told to lay off five members of his police department. Balzic confronts members of the Conemaugh Foundation, a clandestine organization out to seize control of Rocksburg.

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

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References

  1. Constantine, K. C. (1995). Cranks and Shadows. St. Martin's Press. ISBN   978-0-89296-543-4.
  2. CRANKS AND SHADOWS | Kirkus Reviews.