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Sunshine Enemies

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Country
  
USA

Publication date
  
1990

Pages
  
167

Author
  
K. C. Constantine

Genre
  
Novel

OCLC
  
20319437

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1990

Page count
  
167

Preceded by
  
Joey's Case

Publisher
  
The Mysterious Press of Warner Books

Similar
  
Cranks and Shadows, Joey's Case, Good Sons, Saving Room for Dessert, Bottom Liner Blues

Sunshine Enemies is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1980s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh).

Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.

The novel opens with a Lutheran minister complaining about a pornography ship that recently opened at the edge of town. Next a brutal knife murder happens in the shop's parking lot. All of this prompts Balzic the police chief to work the case, digging up reluctant witnesses and asking questions.

It is the ninth book in the 17-volume Rocksburg series.

References

Sunshine Enemies Wikipedia