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Crime novel by K. C. Constantine

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Sunshine Enemies
First edition
Author	K. C. Constantine
Language	English
Publisher	The Mysterious Press of Warner Books
Publication date	1990
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	167
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, 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.

It is the ninth book in the 17-volume Mario Balzic Detective Mystery Series.

References

"Book Review: Sunshine Enemi by K. C. Constantine, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-288-4". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
"Mario Balzic Detective Mystery Series by K.C. Constantine". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.

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 (2000) Saving Room for Dessert (2002)

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 (2000)
Saving Room for Dessert (2002)

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