| Bottom Liner Blues[1] | |
| Author: | K. C. Constantine |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | The Mysterious Press of Warner Books |
| Release Date: | 1993 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Pages: | 167 |
| Isbn: | 0-89296-289-5 |
| Oclc: | 26722159 |
| Preceded By: | Sunshine Enemies |
| Followed By: | Cranks and Shadows |
Bottom Liner Blues[2] is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine 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.
The novel opens with Balzic back in a police car and feeling depressed about his mother's recent death. He gets a call from a woman who thinks her husband may be out to brutally exact revenge on a truck driver with a questionable past. She wants Balzic to stop the attack, but gives him little to go on. He senses there is more coming and he is right.[3]
It is the tenth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.