How about William Reynolds's "Nebraska" series? I consider
his books
fairly hard-boiled. Omaha is a big city, and has the same
problems as
all big cities, but because of its location it doesn't strike
most
people as the kind of place where you'd run into organized
crime, etc.
Linda, class of '[mumble-mumble] Lincoln (Nebraska)
High
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