Another Day's Pain
A Rocksburg Novel
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
K.C. Constantine returns with the long-awaited final chapter of his saga of the Rocksburg Police Department.
The police force of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, doesn’t see a ton of action. With jobs and industry moving away from the small city outside Pittsburgh, Detective Ruggiero “Rugs” Carlucci’s greatest adversaries are his negligent vacation-prone fellow officers and an older divorcee who has a habit of dancing naked on her back porch when she stops taking her medication. Retirement is on the horizon for Rugs, and the Vietnam vet is counting the days until he can move on from the job.
But Rocksburg isn’t going to let Rugs drift off to retirement without a fight. Before he can neatly wrap up his career, Rugs will face a mad shooter, a vengeful city councilman, and, most perilously, his own mother.
With a supporting cast of characters painted through uproarious profanity and heart-wrenching confessions, Another Day’s Pain is a bold and darkly funny novel about crime and the damaged souls it leaves behind.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Decades of unresolved trauma power the deeply moving, posthumously published final Rocksburg procedural (after 2002's Saving Room for Dessert) from Constantine (1934–2023). It's 2011, and Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci, who became Rocksburg's acting police chief after his mentor's retirement, is now two years past retirement age himself. Rugs has spent his entire life in the small Pennsylvania town; unmarried and childless, he is one of only two detectives on the ramshackle police force. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Franny Perfetti, is struggling with the burden of her aging mother's medical bills, which threaten to bankrupt her. Her plight reminds Rugs of his own mother, whom he committed to a mental facility after she nearly killed one of his colleagues with a frying pan. When Rugs responds to a call about an active shooter much larger and younger than him, the detective draws on the survival instincts he developed 40 years earlier in Vietnam, and the experience spurs him to face long-buried emotional demons. Constantine ends the long-running series on a high note, striking an elegaic tone that never tilts into triteness. Here's hoping this graceful final act will spark new interest in an unsung master of crime fiction.
