You might look at "Third and Indiana" and "The Sunday
Macaroni Club" by Steve Lopez, a former reporter for the
Philadephia Inquirer. These are loaded with local color,
written by a guy who lived and worked in the city of
brotherly love. His new one, set for May publication, is
entitled In The Clear. The book description at Amazon says:
"Albert LaRosa has spent his whole life just trying to get
from yesterday to tomorrow. Born, raised, and now the sheriff
of a small New Jersey island town, he was forced back to his
hometown of Harbor Light after his shot at the big time as a
cop in Philadelphia was destroyed by the events of one dark
night. Twenty-five years and one marriage later, it looks as
if life might finally give him a break. Albert is offered a
job as chief of security at a new casino at a salary he has
only dreamed of. Not that his dreams were ever very grand. Of
course, not everyone in town is equally happy. Albert can
live with the death threats. And the bombing!
s. Even a dead body provides some professional
excitement. He can take his father's tirades about selling
out and he can cope with his girlfriend, Rickie, losing her
business--at least he's always been a good friend to her son,
Jack. What bothers him is that he might have to arrest one of
them for murder."
Manuel Ramos
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