Brushback (Audio Cassette)

de K.C. Constantine (Author)

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Audio Cassette
Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. (Aug 13 1998)
ISBN-10: 0736642161
ISBN-13: 978-0736642163
Product Dimensions: 23,1 x 16,3 x 3,3 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g

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From Library Journal

Det. Rugs Carlucci, acting chief of the Rocksburg Police Department, hunts for the murderer of Bobby Blasco, a gambler who once pitched for the Red Sox. Picturesque characters, pithy dialog, and good plot.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Think of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, as a kind of ethnic Winesburg, Ohio, with the steel mills and mines shut down, and you'll understand the small world of pathos, poignance, and inchoate longing Constantine creates in this wondrous series. There are no true heroes and only a few real villains. Mostly there are victims--of human frailties, theirs and others; of change; even of ice storms. Layer by layer, each character is revealed to be complex and worth knowing. This time out, Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci is investigating the brutal murder of Brushback Bobby Blasco, a local hero who once beaned the immortal Ted Williams, even though Williams was his Red Sox teammate. Blasco, who has a history of beating wives and girlfriends, has been bludgeoned to death with a Louisville Slugger autographed by the Splendid Splinter. But Rugs has many competing concerns: his mother's nightly anxiety attacks; his duties as acting police chief; byzantine city politics; undertrained, overworked cops; and summoning the courage to ask a beautiful woman for a date. The denouement scarcely resolves all his worries, but readers will feel a kind of affirmation from knowing that Rugs and Rocksburg will soldier on. K. C. Constantine is our truest detective of the heart. Thomas Gaughan --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Entertaining Small Time Police Story With a Likable Lead, D�c 23 1998

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This review is from: Brushback (Hardcover)

K. C. Constantine develops the character of acting police chief Rugs Carlucci, into a likable guy operating in a small time depressed western Pennsylvania town. The author uses dialogue in a most effective and entertaining way. The police chief is a Viet Nam vet, a good civil servant, a good son, and good cop liked by most around him. Investigating the murder of a former home town sports hero, he gets to open up the decaying environment of this "has been" town near Pittsburgh, PA. What the reader gets is a entertaining picture of this town and its socio-economically depressed characters and politically corrupt small time government.

The story did leave me wanting more. I wanted to see the nice guy police chief further develop the love affair with his coworker's cousin.

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