Sunshine Enemies
Crime novel by K. C. Constantine
Sunshine Enemies is a crime novel by the American writer K. C. Constantine set in 1980s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rust Belt 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.[1]
It is the ninth book in the 17-volume Mario Balzic Detective Mystery Series.[2]
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Novels by K. C. Constantine
- The Rocksburg Railroad Murders (1972)
- The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself (1973)
- The Blank Page (1974)
- A Fix Like This (1975)
- The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (1982)
- Always a Body to Trade (1983)
- Upon Some Midnights Clear (1985)
- Joey's Case (1988)
- Sunshine Enemies (1990)
- Bottom Liner Blues (1993)
- Cranks and Shadows (1995)
- Good Sons (1996)
- Family Values (1997)
- Brushback (1998)
- Blood Mud (1999)
- Grievance (2000)
- Saving Room for Dessert (2002)
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