''Good Sons'' is a
crime novel
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...
by the American writer
K. C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar,
Rust Belt
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town in
Western Pennsylvania
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, modeled on the author's hometown of
McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania
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, adjacent to
Pittsburgh
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.
Detective Sergeant Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci, the self-deprecating protégé of recently retired Mario Balzic, is the protagonist.
It tells the story of Carlucci, who finds himself in line as Balzic's likely successor as Rocksburg Chief of Police, that is if he can solve the case of a local businesswoman who has been raped and battered.
It is the twelfth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.
References
1996 American novels
Novels by K. C. Constantine
American crime novels
Novels set in Pennsylvania
Mysterious Press books
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