Joey's Case is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1980s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt town in Western Pennsylvania, modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh.

Joey's Case
First edition
AuthorK. C. Constantine
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThe Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date
1988
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages224
ISBN0-89296-347-6
OCLC16406152
Preceded byUpon Some Midnights Clear 
Followed bySunshine Enemies 

Plot

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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 a former coal miner, Albert Castelucci, asking Balzic to investigate the killing of his son. He feels the state police in charge of the case have botched the investigation, but when Balzic begins, he finds more puzzles than he first expected.

Publishing details and honors

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It is the eighth book in the seventeen-volume Rocksburg series and was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1989.[1]

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