Sunshine Enemies

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Sunshine Enemies

Author	K.C. Constantine
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	The Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date	1990
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	167
ISBN	ISBN 0-89296-288-7
OCLC	20319437
Preceded by	Joey's Case
Followed by	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

Constantine, K.C. (2002). Saving Room for Dessert. New York: The Mysterious Press of Warner Books. ISBN 0-89296-763-3.

v t e Novels by K.C. Constantine

Mario Balzic series	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)

Other novels	Grievance (novel) (2000) Saving Room for Dessert (2002)

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