Cranks and Shadows
 First edition | |
| Author | K. C. Constantine |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Mysterious Press of Warner Books |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 314 |
| 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.
References
- ^ Constantine, K. C. (1995). Cranks and Shadows. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-89296-543-4.
- ^ CRANKS AND SHADOWS | Kirkus Reviews.