Rust Belt crime fiction · The Moldeth City series
Hardboiled novels about the foremen, the fixers, and the people who keep the books nobody admits exist.
Read in order
Book 1
A Rust Belt Mafia Thriller
The Sopranos meets The Wire in a dying Ohio lake town, where three old crime families find out the fentanyl killing their streets is moving through their own job sites, their own bars, and the kid on their own crew.
Three mob families survived the Purge by staying small and staying out of each other’s way, until a faceless outfit from Southworks starts using all of them to move pills that killed a twenty-two-year-old waitress.
Book 2
A Rust Belt Mafia Thriller
A Polish mob captain kicks in the door of an empty house on his own street, expecting pills, and finds five trafficked girls behind a slide bolt. No crime family in the city will lift a finger for them.
Freddy Stopiak finally runs the West Side, and his first discovery is that the outfit he couldn’t stop selling pills has started storing girls in the houses where he grew up.
Lou Skrivara writes hardboiled crime fiction set in the Rust Belt cities where the mills closed but the arrangements didn’t. His books are about the people who keep a place running after the official version of it is gone: the foremen, the fixers, the ones who count the loads and keep the books nobody admits exist.
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