Steel City Blues

By Vincent Massaro

Pittsburgh, the Steel City. Steel, for the industry that thrived for more than a century. Steel, for the men and women who toiled there.

It began for Detective Sam Lucas in August of 1960. His life with his wife and three children was idyllic. He was a rising star in Pittsburgh's homicide division. He and his partner, Jimmy Dugan could do no wrong. Life was good.

Then, Katherine Burns' dead body was discovery splayed across her bed. Sam's fears would soon be realized as he raced against the clock to bring a killer to justice. His life forever changed.

In the fall of 1974, fourteen years later, in the shadows of a country that had just seen its president resign, and a steel industry that was slowly imploding, a melancholy had taken over the country. His friend had committed suicide and an unspeakable evil arises. As Sam Lucas fights through his personal demons to discover what happened to his friend and police chief, he begins to delve deeper into the despair of a forgotten community to attempt to being justice to people without hope.

As Sam Lucas tracks down a killer, he must confront his devastating past as tries to make right many wrongs and piece together the broken fragments of his life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1791727883
• ISBN13: 9781791727888
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"