| Sunshine Enemies | |
| Author: | K. C. Constantine |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | The Mysterious Press of Warner Books |
| Release Date: | 1990 |
| 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.[1]
It is the ninth book in the 17-volume Mario Balzic Detective Mystery Series.[2]