Crime

Lou Skrivara

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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Moldeth City · Book 1 Crime

Moldeth City

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.

To shut it down, an Italian enforcer, a Polish captain, and the fixer who cleans up both their messes each have to kill someone they trusted, and the man who built the pipeline walks out the front door.

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Moldeth City · Book 2 Crime

Cold Work

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.

His own council won't back him and the Italians are quietly renting out the same rooms, so he goes to war with a crew of castoffs: a thief, a fixer, a back-room doctor, and the enemy's own bookkeeper.

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