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From: [e-mail] (Lori Cole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Sjowall & Wahloo and other series
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Date: 31 Dec 92 17:21:02 GMT
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Is anyone familiar with K.C. Constantine's books, set in the fictional
Western Pennsylvania town of Rocksburg (read Greensburg)?  His hero(?),
the half-Italian half-Serbian police chief Mario Balzic, evolves (as
does his family) throughout the series.  Plus wonderful working-class
characters.  The books are very different, from the more light _Upon
Some Midnights Clear_ (good holiday reading), to the very dark _Sunshine
Enemies_.  A friend who is off to France for a year's post-doc work,
took all his books along to remind her of home.  I've gotten my hands on
all but one; oddly enough most of them are out of print in the U.S. but
_are_ available in the U.K.  I'd be interested in hearing if there are
other fans of Constantine out there.  This is a psuedonym, by the way;
apparently he guards his privacy jealously.  Rumor has it that Universal
owns the rights to the books but has no plans to do anything with them.
This might be a good idea since they are more about the ideas and
characters than about plot.

Lori Cole