Author: K. C. ConstantinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Rocksburg Railroad Murders
Author: K. C. ConstantinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Rocksburg Railroad Murders
Author: K. C. ConstantinePublisher:
ISBN: 9780340502341
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
Author: K. C. ConstantinePublisher:
ISBN: 9780879239534
Category : Balzic, Mario (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
K.C. Constantine's Mario Balzic is one of those police chiefs so close to his people that nothing moves or even sits still in his town without his knowing how and why. His town is Rocksburg, a small coal mining town in western Pennsylvania where most of the coal has run out. Tomatoes curiously ripening out of season are the key. It begins at Muscotti's Bar, Balzic's refuge, when Jimmy Romanelli sells several baskets of tomatoes to Vinnie, Muscotti's barkeep. It ends some weeks later after three deaths and a drained, disgusted Balzic, unable to take any satisfaction in his solution of Romanelli's murder, the proximate cause for Jimmy's twisted passion for growing tomatoes.
History of Warren County, N.J.
Author: George Wyckoff CumminsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Warren County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Family Values
Author: K. C. ConstantinePublisher:
ISBN: 9780892965458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Now a special investigator for the state, Mario Balzic probes a seventeen-year-old murder case that takes him on a complex trail leading from a drug deal gone wrong and two bodies in a cabin to a corrupt small-town police chief paralyzed by a stroke.
Murder Under Her Skin
Author: Stephen SpotswoodPublisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0593312805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring women sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus “A delight.... It’s a pleasure to watch [Pentecost and Parker] sifting through red herrings and peeling secrets back like layers of an onion.” The New York Times Book Review Someone’s put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean “Will” Parker’s former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost, travel to the circus, where they find a snake pit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for. Will called Hart & Halloway’s Traveling Circus and Sideshow home for five years, and Ruby Donner, the circus’s tattooed ingenue, was her friend. To make matters worse, the prime suspect is Valentin Kalishenko, the man who taught Will everything she knows about putting a knife where it needs to go. To uncover the real killer and keep Kalishenko from a date with the electric chair, Will and Ms. Pentecost join the circus in sleepy Stoppard, Virginia, where the locals like their cocktails mild, the past buried, and big-city detectives not at all. The two swiftly find themselves lost in a funhouse of lies as Will begins to realize that her former circus compatriots aren’t playing it straight, and that her murdered friend might have been hiding a lot of secrets beneath all that ink.
The Fractal Murders
Author: Mark CohenPublisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 9780892967995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Learning that three instructors who shared her specialty have died under mysterious circumstances, fractal geometry professor Jane Smythe turns for help to former Marine and private investigator Pepper Keane, who investigates clues across the country. A first novel. 18,000 first printing.
Joey's Case
Author: K. C. ConstantinePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780892963478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Police Chief Mario Balzic has got one hot Italian on his heels. Albert Castelucci wants to straighten some things out about his son's murder. It seems that the investigator Balzic appointed to Castelucci's case made such a mess no jury could convict the killer. Pushing Balzic into losing his temper may just provide the answers Castelucci needs.
The Blank Page
Author: K. C. ConstantinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Fortune Favors the Dead
Author: Stephen SpotswoodPublisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0385546564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages. “Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.”—Tana French, bestselling author of The Searcher It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation. Three years later, Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball following a big, boozy Halloween party at her home—her body slumped in the same chair where her steel magnate husband shot himself the year before. With rumors flying that Abigail was bumped off by the vengeful spirit of her husband (who else could have gotten inside the locked room?), the family has tasked the detectives with finding answers where the police have failed. But that's easier said than done in a case that involves messages from the dead, a seductive spiritualist, and Becca Collins—the beautiful daughter of the deceased, who Will quickly starts falling for. When Will and Becca's relationship dances beyond the professional, Will finds herself in dangerous territory, and discovers she may have become the murderer's next target.